Creative Writing professor and Director of the Creative Writing MFA Program, Martin Corless-Smith, published “Golden Satellite Debris ,” his 13th book of poetry. “The title points towards a sense of the wonder and glory of life on this planet,” Corless-Smith wrote in his author’s note. “The Golden (with a hint of the sun setting no doubt), but also a sense of life as an aftermath, Debris, a sort of arbitrary and accidental outcome of equations and collisions only some of which we are aware of. I see the earth as a Satellite, a contingent object moving in space, but on a smaller scale also the human and the poem, spinning around some unknown centre, whether we call that truth, being, love or death.”
Born and raised in Worcestershire, England, Martin Corless-Smith earned a BA and an MFA in painting and printmaking, an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. His book of translations, “Odious Horizons: Some versions of Horace” came out in 2019. In 2020, Parlor Press published “The Poet’s Tomb,” his collection of essays. He edits the Free Poetry series.
You can purchase “Golden Satellite Debris” here.
Recently, Corless-Smith published five new poems in the journal “periodicities.” You can read them here, periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics.