Thomas R. Smith
Thomas R. Smith is the author of five books of poems, most recently The Foot of the Rainbow (2010). He edited the festschrift Walking Swiftly: Writing and Images on the Occasion of Robert Bly’s 65th Birthday (1992). He teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
James P. Lenfestey, a former editorial writer for the Minneapolis–St. Paul Star Tribune, is the author of a collection of personal essays and four collections of poems. He convened the conference Robert Bly in This World.