Daniel L. Smith
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 cross-cultural healing, Smith is a writer and teacher of writing at root. He is a specialist in teaching creative, technical, and medical professional writing for the past five decades. He retired from clinical practice in 2021.
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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
Fiction includes Just South of Grace, I Remember It Differently, and most recently, As Sleep Let in Daylight. He is completing a text on counseling called Grace and Trust, and another, 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 retired from clinical practice in 2021 to devote time to writing, woodworking, and gardening.
He can be reached at Betnomore@gmail.com Or poetry@daniellsmith.com
Daniel L. Smith, poet 