By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Dr. Mark Smith-Soto.
“Any Second Now,” the newest poetry collection by Dr. Mark Smith-Soto, was published this month by Main Street Rag Publishing Company of Charlotte.
Smith-Soto, professor of Romance languages at UNCG and editor of the department’s “International Poetry Review,” is director of UNCG’s new Center for Creative Writing in the Arts.
A finalist in Main Street Rag Publishing’s annual poetry contest, “Any Second Now” was chosen to appear as part of their Editor's Select Poetry Series. Main Street Rag Publishing is the largest poetry publisher in North Carolina and one of the largest in the Southeast.
Smith-Soto’s work has appeared in “Nimrod,” “Carolina Quarterly,” “The Sun,” “Poetry East,” “Quarterly West,” “Americas Review,” “Callaloo,” “Chattahoochee Review,” “Literary Review” and “Kenyon Review.” His “Green Mango Collage,” winner of the N.C. Writers' Network’s Year 2000 Persephone Competition, was published by Birch Brook Press. Another poetry collection, “Shafts,” won the Writers' Network's 2001 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Competition. His first full-length collection of poetry, “Our Lives Are Rivers,” was published by Florida University Press in the summer of 2003.
