Crystal Simone Smith
Crystal Simone Smith is an award-winning poet and educator. She is the author of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound (Duke University Press, 2025) and Dark Testament (Henry Holt, 2023). In 2022, her collection of haiku, Ebbing Shore, won The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. Smith is the recipient a Duke Humanities Unbounded Fellowship. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including POETRY Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Rattle, Frogpond, and The Heron's Nest. She teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University and writes poetry about the human condition and social change.
https://crystalsimonesmith.com/
Participation at the 2015 West End Poetry Festival
- Opening Celebration | Friday, October 16 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Flyleaf Books
- For a full schedule and descriptions of all sessions, see the festival schedule.