Gordon Mitchell Smith is a Nashville-born poet and writer whose work appears in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His poem “Biohacking” (unpublished) was a finalist for the Glossy Planet/Palette Poetry Cult of Productivity contest. An MFA student at New York University, he lives with his cat, Joni Mitchell Smith.
Selected work
It
Ploughshares, 2024
on dating
The American Poetry Review, 2023
Amends
Kenyon Review, 2017
Aubade
Hooligan Mag, 2023
The Apocalypse Survivor's Aubade
MumberMag, 2022
Introvert Weather
the lickety-split, 2021
On Returning to Final Fantasy VI
GateCrashers, 2021
Cereology
The American Journal of Poetry, 2021
You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet
Palette Poetry, 2021
Three Post-Apocalyptic Sonnets
Columbia Poetry Review, 2020
War Hero
Los Angeles Review, 2011