Kay Smith Poetry Page—the celebrated poet—was also a

Page—the celebrated poet—was also a gifted visual artist working under her married name

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

who taught him Old Norse

author of the acclaimed Words for Elephant Man

Kay Smith Poetry Page—the celebrated poet—was also aBorn 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,