Richard Smith’s first book, Not a Soul but Us, won the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was released in 2022 by Bauhan Publishing. His second book, Beyond Where Words Can Go, has just been published, also by Bauhan . Both are narratives told in sonnets: Not a Soul but Us follows a 12-year-old boy orphaned and abandoned during the plague pandemic in mid-14th-century Yorkshire, and Beyond Where Words Can Go tracks a group of Tudor-era Benedictine monks before, during, and after Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. Richard is a psychologist with a clinical practice in Washington, D.C.
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