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Daniel Smith
About Daniel Smith
Today, as a contemplative psychotherapist, and a teacher of writing, meditation, and shamanic drumming as therapeutic modalities in cross cultural healing, Daniel L. Smith writes poetry, fiction, and training programs from his log cabin’s screened porch in the Missouri Ozarks. Despite his academic preparation and teaching experiences, Smith is a life-long devotee of Celtic Shamanism, an experienced veteran of meditation with a beginner’s mind, and full of other contradictions. Writing poetry for over fifty years, Smith was Contributor in Poetry for two consecutive years at the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference back in the 70’s.
His six books of poetry includes Spider Lace Dragonfly Mind 2014; Songs to An Indifferent Sangha: 2nd ed.Selected Poems A to Z. 2015; Among Others: Hot Coal Poems of 2015 ; Without Thought of Return, Coming Home Late 2016; and Incandescence: Poems of Obscurity 2016. (all available on Amazon)
Fiction includes Just South of Grace, I Remember It Differently, and most recently, As Sleep Let in Daylight. He is completing a text on counseling called Grace and Trust, and another, tentatively entitled Simply a Guide to The Twelve Steps, as well as How To Stop Gambling. His excerpted work has appeared in "The Mask of Therapeutic Containment" (Spirit Talk); "Just South of Grace" (Woods and Waters); and "It Can't Happen to Me" (The Ligorian). As known speaker and trainer, his powerpoints can be found throughout the internet.
He can be reached at [email protected].