Ryan Patrick Smith holds a BA in English from Transylvania University and MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poetry, runner-up in the 2015 Boston Review Poetry Contest and semifinalist in the 2015 Discovery Poetry Contest, appears or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, Salt Hill, Architrave Press, and elsewhere.
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Augury
Hear the starlings, reader in your dark-red car. The starlings hear the dwindle. They hear the service station’s bluepumps rasp, the grease trucks filling up behind a neighboring diner,see every […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Escape from Milam Landfill
What’s manna, what’s milk. What’s demonic to a mountain, the Illinois trash-mound chronic with sourness & leak. Nothing fell on you like preservingsnow. Nothing petrified your leftovers. No container evaded […]
Ryan Patrick Smith
Ryan Patrick Smith holds a BA in English from Transylvania University and MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His poetry, runner-up in the 2015 Boston Review Poetry […]