By J.D. Smith. Broadstone Books, 2025.

The Place That Is Coming to Us addresses our frequently troubled human relationship with the non-human world using a variety of free-verse styles as well as prose poetry. The topics include climate change, habitat loss, and species extinction, along with ecogrief at large, and the collection’s final poems discuss how we might return to a more collegial relationship with the natural world.

J.D. Smith is the author of poetry collections including Catalogs for Food Lovers (Kelsay Books, 2021), The Killing Tree (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and The Hypothetical Landscape (Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series, 1999). His poems have appeared in Dark Mountain, Gargoyle, Harvard Review Online, The Hopper, New Verse News, Tar River Poetry, Terrain.org, and numerous anthologies; and his prose has appeared in Boulevard, Chelsea, and The Los Angeles Times. His fiction collection Transit was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A graduate of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, Smith lives in Washington, DC with his wife Paula Van Lare and their rescue animals. Further information and occasional updates are available at www.jdsmithwriter.com.