Children's Book by Younger Poet Alumnus/J.D. Smith, 1985

Greetings to all.

It's been a long absence from the blog (I somehow got cut off for a while during the great Blogger migration), but I would like to take this opportunity to announce the publication of my first children's book, The Best Mariachi in the World/El Mejor Mariachi del Mundo, which is available in bilingual, Spanish and English editions in both hardcover and paperback.

Information on the book is available on the blog of illustrator Dani Jones at
http://mariachibook.blogspot.com/

Reviews have so far come out in two publications, Publishers Weekly affiliate Criticas at http://www.criticasmagazine.com/article/CA6584770.html and Washington Parent at http://www.washingtonparent.com/articles/0809/books.php. There has so far been one customer review on Amazon UK at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Mariachi-World-Jd-Smith/dp/1887744991/ref=ed_oe_h.

In the meantime, I am in the home stretch of my NEA grant activities, trying to circulate a chapbook and figuring out whether my two collection manuscripts (one free verse and one formal verse) are really ready.

I am looking forward to talking to Writing Bison at AWP Chicago.

J.D. Smith

a poem by Greg Wrenn

click here to read Greg Wrenn's "At Keats' Grave Again" in Center.

a poem by Eric Kocher

Kudos to Eric Kocher, whose poem "My Poor Heart" appears in the current issue of DIAGRAM.

Click here to read the poem.

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