Like She Is In Him

Locked up at sixteen because the judge wanted to see what that would do to wipe the smile off his face, River Smith has gone from street fights, juvenile court injustice, and solitary confinement, to the poet's platform, the professor's lectern, and the activist's microphone. His first poem was published while he was failing high school English. Within ten years, over one hundred of his poems had been published in newspapers, literary journals, and movement magazines. Self published in the tradition of Walt Whitman for the past thirty years, River is an experienced spoken word artist who has performed his work, with and without accompaniment, in venues all over the country. Still smiling (that judge must have been disappointed), River has continued to learn about transformative power from the strong and generous wombin who have moved through his life and helped to enlarge his vision of a world of love, pleasure, joy, and justice for all who travel this journey with him.