Virginia’s new poet laureate on the physicality of poetry, what drew him in – and his college life on the gridiron.
by Brent Baldwin
Gov. Terry McAuliffe named Ron Smith as the state's poet laureate last week. And it's likely that no one who ever set foot in his classrooms at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Mary Washington, the University of Richmond or St. Christopher's School -- where he teaches and was chairman of the English department for 21 years -- was surprised.…[ Read more ]