
A Bit About the Author
Douglas M Smith is the author of In Drought Time (Mayapple Press, 2005) and Social Work and Other Myths (Orchard Street Press, 2019). He has been a finalist in the Mudfish Magazine Poetry Contest (2016 and 2024), Concrete Wolf Poetry Series (2016), and the New Guard Knightville Poetry Contests. His work has also been published in Passager, Third Wednesday; Sheila-Na-Gig; Caesura; Mudfish; Slant; World Enough Writers; The Orchard Street Press Journal; Last Call: The Anthology of Wine, Beer, and Spirits; and Quiet Diamonds.
Time as a community organizer
What People are Saying
Keith Taylor
Poet, Critic, and Author of The Bird While
Author, Doug Smith, has done the work: fed the hungry and housed the homeless without any great hope that he can do much good, without any certainty of his own motivations. But the poems sing and they remember, clearly, and with such compassion.
M. L. Liebler
Author and Co-founder of the Midwest Literary walk
Social Work & Other Myths, is an insightful and very realistic journey into the heart of darkness that we call contemporary America. Doug Smith’s poems shine a light on the cruelty of our society and, yet offers hope to nourish our souls.
Brian Cox
Award winning Michigan playwright
Social Work and Other Myths is a poignant expression of compassion. These poems beseech us to identify with the humanity in the desperate, the afflicted, the abandoned, the evicted and the exiled.
Long Shadows Go Out from the Bales, Elaine Wilson
