Kay Smith Poetry Amabile’s talent for sounding the

Amabile’s talent for sounding the complex depths of everyday life shines like a beacon

What follows describes becoming a family of seven (“It Seemed That We Had Hardly Begun And We Were Already There”)

now both long dead

Selected by Arlene Lampert and Théa Gray

filled with words we all know that go with things we see every day

Kay Smith Poetry Amabile’s talent for sounding theBorn in Saint John in 1911, Kay Smith was a poet and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years and whose circle included such luminaries as painter Miller Brittain and writer artist P. K. Page. Smith was known for her modernist style and her distinctly metaphysical poetic sensibility, and her poems frequently appeared in major literary publications such as Contemporary Verse, The Cormorant and The Fiddlehead. She published her first book,