In a ceremony in Sheridan, Wyoming on Friday, October 27, Governor Mark Gordon signed an executive order naming Barbara Smith the 9th Poet Laureate of the State of Wyoming. Barbara, whose book Putting a Name on It was published in 2022 by Deep Wild Books, is Professor Emeritus at Western Wyoming College. She is a past recipient of the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award for her contributions in support of the arts in Sweetwater County and for her own writing. She has been a mainstay in the state-wide community of poets and writers for decades, as an organizer, educator, and presenter. Congratulations, Barbara, for this richly deserved honor from your friends at Deep Wild Press!
Putting a Name on It
a collection of poetry by
Barbara M. Smith
ISBN: 978-1-7372874-1-4
101 pages, 6×9 paperback, $16.00 (plus $4 shipping and handling)
In her first full-length collection, Barbara Smith offers richly-imagined stories of pioneer women of the West, of her own family’s multi-generational history in Montana and Wyoming, and of the community of Rock Springs, Wyoming, that for over four decades she has called home. Putting a Name on It, the winner of the 2022 Wyoming Historical Society Award for Poetry, is now entering its third printing.
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