School of Continuing Studies Professor Wins Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry

November 28, 2005

Ron Smith, an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Richmond’s School of Continuing Studies, has been awarded the inaugural Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, along with Elizabeth Seydel, vice president of the Richmond Public Library Foundation.

Established this year, the $10,000 annual award recognizes poets with strong connections to central Virginia who have made recent contributions to the art of poetry.

Smith has taught creative writing and other classes at the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Mary Washington. He also is the first-ever writer-in-residence at St. Christopher’s School.

Smith’s books are “Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery (1988) and “Moon Road,” forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press. His poems have been published in the Nation, New England Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

Besides the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, he has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, the Guy Owen Poetry Prize and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship.