James Wright's Ohio
Celebrated Ohio poet James Wright is featured in this 2.5 minute clip from the docu-drama film "James Wright's Ohio" by film makers Tom Koba and Larry Smith. It includes commentary from Wright and his poet-friend William Matthews and a poem video of Wright's poem "A Flower Passage." The film was supported by grants from The Ohio Arts Council and The Ohio Humanities Council, and the Stein Foundation. The full length (30 mins.) dvd version of this docudrama is now available from Bottom Dog Press at http://smithdocs.net Please enjoy the land and his fine words.
On The Free Farm: A Novel...Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.' ”
—Laura Treacy Bentley
About Larry
I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings. I then...
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Causes Larry Smith Supports
peace and justice, meditation
Larry’s Favorite Books
Walden, Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems