RICH SMITH is the author All Talk (Poor Claudia, 2014) and the chapbook Great Poem of Desire and Other Poems (Poor Claudia, 2013). This year he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Prize. His poems have appeared or will soon appear in Tin House, City Arts, Guernica, The Southeast Review, Hobart, Barrow Street, The Bellingham Review, Pleiades, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.