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Lytton Smith

Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in New York City, where he is a founding member of Blind Tiger Poetry, a group which aims to find innovative ways to promote contemporary poetry. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems. His book, The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, Monster Theory, was selected by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. He has taught creative writing, translation, and expository writing at Columbia University.

Posted on January 2, 2009 2:02 PM

• Addressing a Country as the Name We Like
• Your Event Horizon
• Scarecrow Work
• If You Could See the Motorists' Gloves and Leathers!
• The Tightrope Walker's Childhood
• Monster Theory
• The Wide Receiver Declares Himself Ready
• Annuls the Space/Time Experience
• New British
• After the Last Days of the Circus
• Lytton Smith Q&A on his poem "Monster Theory"
• Lytton Smith Q&A with advice to young writers
• Lytton Smith Q&A on reading a poem vs hearing it
• Lytton Smith

 

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