Frank Barry Smith, now retired and living in Washington state, served as a combat medic in the Vietnam war. This collection... More > of poetry--written mostly while in Vietnam--chronicles first and foremost the friendships made and lost during war time. "I have made friends and lost them / in ways more quickly than some / but less than others..." Smith writes in "THE MIDDLE," ironically the book's final poem. POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book of memory, a book of fear, a book of observation, a book of confusion and youth and a time that seemed to go at lightspeed while the long days still dragged into even longer nights; but, most importantly, POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book about love and its ability to remain and be found in the worst situations.

Frank Barry Smith studied poetry under Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and John Logan. < Less

Stupid Birds is a collection of my chapbooks, long poems, and a few singular poems written between the years 2004 thru 2006.... More > Table of Contents: Logan's Lyric (august 2004), ghosts spiders &dogs (september 2004), red apple falls (november 2004), Childish Poem or The Welcomed Beating (november 2004), this is affront you pig (january 2005), Where I Came When I Was Married (february 2005), into the fall (february 2005), NARCISSUS 2000 (march 2005), Much Like You Shark (august 2006). < Less

Frank Barry Smith, now retired and living in Washington state, served as a combat medic in the Vietnam war. This collection... More > of poetry--written mostly while in Vietnam--chronicles first and foremost the friendships made and lost during war time. "I have made friends and lost them / in ways more quickly than some / but less than others..." Smith writes in "THE MIDDLE," ironically the book's final poem. POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book of memory, a book of fear, a book of observation, a book of confusion and youth and a time that seemed to go at lightspeed while the long days still dragged into even longer nights; but, most importantly, POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book about love and its ability to remain and be found in the worst situations. Frank Barry Smith studied poetry under Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and John Logan. < Less

Frank Barry Smith, now retired and living in Washington state, served as a combat medic in the Vietnam war. This collection... More > of poetry--written mostly while in Vietnam--chronicles first and foremost the friendships made and lost during war time. "I have made friends and lost them / in ways more quickly than some / but less than others..." Smith writes in "THE MIDDLE," ironically the book's final poem. POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book of memory, a book of fear, a book of observation, a book of confusion and youth and a time that seemed to go at lightspeed while the long days still dragged into even longer nights; but, most importantly, POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book about love and its ability to remain and be found in the worst situations.

Frank Barry Smith studied poetry under Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and John Logan. < Less

Released under my imprint, TRANSMISSION PRESS (transmissionpress.blogspot.com), Stupid Birds is a collection of my... More > chapbooks, long poems, and a few singular poems written between the years 2004 thru 2006.

Table of Contents:

Logan's Lyric (august 2004),
ghosts spiders &dogs (september 2004),
red apple falls (november 2004),
Childish Poem or The Welcomed Beating (november 2004),
this is affront you pig (january 2005),
Where I Came When I Was Married (february 2005),
into the fall (february 2005),
NARCISSUS 2000 (march 2005),
Much Like You Shark (august 2006). < Less