WRITING
C. Henry Smith is a poet from West Texas. He is the author of the chapbooks Warren (Ghost City Press) and Twenty-Four Covers of a House on Fire (Finishing Line Press), and his Pushcart and Best of the Net-nominated work has appeared in Image, Colorado Review, DMQ Review, Psaltery & Lyre, Peach Velvet Mag, LIT, and elsewhere. He received his MFA at Oregon State University and is grateful for past residencies through Spring Creek Project and Chicago Art Department. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, working as an editor for Denver Quarterly, and co-directing the Mountain West 5x5 Reading Series. @chenrysmith
SELECTED POETRY
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Chapbook: Twenty-Four Covers of a House on Fire, Finishing Line Press 2025
Chapbook: Warren, Ghost City Press 2022
“Collect for the Feast of Saint Peter of Alcántara,” Image 2026
“Collect for the Feast of Saint Francis,” Psaltery & Lyre 2023
“Collect for the Feast of Saint John the Baptist,” Thimble Lit Mag 2023
“Root, Theory,” Cathexis Northwest Press 2023
“Beautiful Come Back,” Up the Stairs Quarterly 2024
"[I can only survive with an addressee],” The Paddock Review 2025
“Someone Mentions Wild Geese […],” LIT Magazine 2023
“Collect for the Feast of Saint Tryphine,” Dappled Things 2023
“Great Plains,” The Colorado Review (featured in Verse Daily) 2022
“sometimes the universe asks this of you,” Cathexis Northwest Press 2021