Jordan Smith

Jordan Smith is primarily a poet, with seven full-length books, most recently Clare's Empire (The Hydroelectric Press) and The Light in the Film (University of Tampa Press, where For Appearances received the first Tampa Review Poetry Prize). His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction and Big Fiction. He lives in upstate New York and teaches at Union College.

The President’s Garden

“It is with some delicacy,” began the note that May had found that morning in the wastebasket in Theo’s study when she went in search of a scrap of paper, that I phrase this apol…” And there the script sputtered and ended. May knew exactly what had happened.

Jordan Smith

Jordan Smith is primarily a poet, with seven full-length books, most recently Clare's Empire (The Hydroelectric Press) and The Light in the Film (University of Tampa Press, where For Appearances received the first Tampa Review Poetry Prize). His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction and Big Fiction. He lives in upstate New York and teaches at Union College.

The President’s Garden

“It is with some delicacy,” began the note that May had found that morning in the wastebasket in Theo’s study when she went in search of a scrap of paper, that I phrase this apol…” And there the script sputtered and ended. May knew exactly what had happened.

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