John Warner Smith is current Poet Laureate of Louisiana. He has published four collections of poetry: Muhammad’s Mountain, published by Lavender Ink in 2018; Spirits of the Gods, published by UL Press in 2017; Soul Be A Witness, published by MadHat Press in 2016; and A Mandala of Hands, published by Kelsay Books-Aldrich Press in 2015. Smith’s fifth collection, Our Shut Eyes: New & Selected Poems on Race in America, is forthcoming. He is the winner of the 2019 Linda Hodge Bromberg Poetry Award and lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Muhammad's Mountain, Homage to the Greatest by 
Soul Be a Witness: Songs to Boys of Color by 