Daniel L. Smith, poet
About
Among Others: The Hot Coal Poems from 2015
Incandescence: Poems of Obscurity 2016
Shards of The Moon: Haiku and Commentary
Spider Lace Dragonfly Mind
The Buddha Is Not In: The Vietnam Poems 2022
the Poetry of Presence
Without Thought of Return / Coming Home Late
Daniel L. Smith has been writing poetry for over sixty years. He is described as a contemplative psychotherapist, a teacher of meditation, and by some, an accomplished cross-cultural healer. Professionally, teaching advanced clinical skills to mental health professionals throughout North America on topics from grief to addiction, shamanic drumming to meditation, Smith is a writer and teacher of writing at root. He is a specialist in teaching the creative and technical aspects of medical and professional writing for the past five decades. Despite his academic preparation and teaching experiences, Smith is a life-long devotee of Celtic Shamanism, an experienced veteran of meditation with a beginner’s mind, and full of other contradictions. He retired from his counseling practice in 2021. Now, from his log cabin’s screened porch in the Missouri Northern Ozarks foothills of the St. Francois Mountains, he writes of the poetry of presence, and experiments with form, metaphysics, mindfulness, and the conditions for happiness.
His collections of poetry in the last ten years include:
Spider Lace Dragonfly Mind
2014
Among Others
2015
Songs to An Indifferent Sangha, 2nd Edition, Selected Poems A to Z
2015
Incandescence: Poems of Obscurity
2016
Coming Home Late
2016
Without Thought of Return
2016
Shards of the Moon: Haiku and Commentary
2024
The Buddha Is Not In: the Vietnam Poems 2022
2024
Smith was Contributor in Poetry for two consecutive years at the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference back in the 70’s. Fiction includes
Just South of Grace, I Remember It
Differe
ntly,
and most recently,
As Sleep Let in Daylight.
He is completing a text on counseling called
Grace and Trust
, and another, tentatively entitled simply a
Guide to The Twelve
Steps
, as well as
How To Stop Gambling.
His excerpted work has appeared in “The Mask of Therapeutic Containment” (Spirit Talk); “Just South of Grace” (Woods and Waters); and “It Can’t Happen to Me” (
The Ligorian
). As a well-known speaker and trainer, his videos and “power points” can be found throughout the internet. He can be reached at Betnomore@gmail.com.
poetry of presence
January 21, 2024
January 19, 2024
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January 19, 2024
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