{"id":1974,"date":"2008-02-22T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2008\/02\/award-winning-author-r-t-smith-to-give-public-reading-and-sign-books-feb-28-8-p-m-at-transylvania-university\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:59:21","slug":"award-winning-author-r-t-smith-to-give-public-reading-and-sign-books-feb-28-8-p-m-at-transylvania-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2008\/02\/award-winning-author-r-t-smith-to-give-public-reading-and-sign-books-feb-28-8-p-m-at-transylvania-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning author R. T. Smith to give public reading and sign books Feb. 28, 8 p.m. at Transylvania University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014R. T. Smith, award-winning poet and short-story author will speak at Transylvania\u2019s William T. Young Campus Center Thursday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m.  After reading from his work, the well-known writer will sign books during a reception in his honor. The event, which is part of Transylvania\u2019s Delcamp Visiting Writer program, <b>is free and open to the public.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nIt is for his book of short fiction, \u201cUke Rivers Delivers,\u201d that Smith was invited to speak at Transylvania. \u201cCold Mountain\u201d author Charles Frazier wrote of \u201cUke Rivers Delivers,\u201d that \u201cthis collection of stories is funny, amazing, daring. Its polyphonic voices of Civil War ghosts, broken innocents, and confused killers lead you down contrarian trails deep into the haunted territory of Southern myth and magic. This is the most enjoyment I\u2019ve gotten from a batch of fiction in a longer span of time than I care to recollect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nSmith was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Georgia and North Carolina. He attended Georgia Tech, the University of North Carolina Charlotte and received his master\u2019s in English from Appalachian State University, where he founded \u201cCold Mountain Review,\u201d which publishes poems by and interviews with national and international poets. For 19 years, Smith taught at Auburn University, serving as alumni writer-in-residence for 12 years and holding many positions, including the co-editorship at \u201cSouthern Humanities Review.\u201d Since 1995, Smith has served as editor of \u201cShenandoah\u201d for Washington and Lee University, where he also teaches creative writing and literature courses.<\/p>\n<p>\nSmith has received a number of prizes for his work, including the Cohen Prize from \u201cPloughshares,\u201d the Guy Owen Prize from \u201cSouthern Humanities Review\u201d and the Richard Hugo Prize from \u201cPoetry Northwest.\u201d He has had his short fiction selected for \u201cThe Pushcart Prize,\u201d \u201cBest American Short Stories\u201d and \u201cNew Stories From the South (2002, 2004 and 2006).\u201d A recent poem will be included in \u201cBest American Poems, 2008.\u201d He is currently working on a new collection of short fiction to be called \u201cIna Grove and Other Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCopies of Smith\u2019s books will be on sale at the reading, and will be available in Transylvania\u2019s campus bookstore prior to the reading. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/692\/story\/327328.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the Lexington Herald-Leader article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014R. T. Smith, award-winning poet and short-story author will speak at Transylvania\u2019s William T. Young Campus Center Thursday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. After reading from his work, the well-known writer will sign books during a reception in his honor. The event, which is part of Transylvania\u2019s Delcamp Visiting Writer program, is free and open to the public. It is for his book of short fiction, \u201cUke Rivers Delivers,\u201d that Smith was invited to speak at Transylvania. \u201cCold Mountain\u201d author Charles Frazier wrote of \u201cUke Rivers Delivers,\u201d that \u201cthis collection of stories is funny, amazing, daring. Its polyphonic voices of Civil War ghosts, broken innocents, and confused killers lead you down contrarian trails deep into the haunted territory of Southern myth and magic. This is the most enjoyment I\u2019ve gotten from a batch of fiction in a longer span of time than I care to recollect.\u201d Smith was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Georgia and North Carolina. He attended Georgia Tech, the University of North Carolina Charlotte and received his master\u2019s in English from Appalachian State University, where he founded \u201cCold Mountain Review,\u201d which publishes poems by and interviews with national and international poets. For 19 years, Smith taught at Auburn University, serving as alumni writer-in-residence for 12 years and holding many positions, including the co-editorship at \u201cSouthern Humanities Review.\u201d Since 1995, Smith has served as editor of \u201cShenandoah\u201d for Washington and Lee University, where he also<\/p>\n<p class=\"continueLink\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2008\/02\/award-winning-author-r-t-smith-to-give-public-reading-and-sign-books-feb-28-8-p-m-at-transylvania-university\/\">Read &ldquo;Award-winning author R. T. 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