Ron Smith to read at Keats-Shelley House
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7 July 2015
Inside the Keats-Shelley museum, Rome
ROME- Thursday 16 July at 5pm in the exquisite Keats-Shelley House, Ron Smith will be reading a selection of his published and new poems, including works inspired by the Romantic poet John Keats, in honour of the evening's locale.
Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia and began his rich academic career on a football scholarship, graduating with degrees in Philosophy, English, General Humanities, and Creative Writing , studying also at Oxford University and at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature in Merano, Italy.
The current Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, his body of works include Its Ghostly Workshop, Moon Road: Poems 1986-2005 and Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, which was judged as a "close runner up" by acclaimed writer Margaret Attwood in the National Poetry Series Open Competition. In 2005 Smith was an inaugural winner of the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, becoming one of the Curators of the prize in the subsequent year.
His poems have appeared in several periodicals, including The Nation, Southern Revie and Kenyon Review, and have featured in a number of anthologies published on both sides of the Atlantic, in the United States, Great Britain, and Italy.
The price is included in the entrance ticket and advance booking is not obligatory, though highly recommended (06 678 42 35/ info@keats-shelley-house.org).