Chard Powers Smith (born Watertown, New York, November 1, 1894; died Williamstown, Massachusetts, October 31, 1977) was an American writer who produced a wide range of works from poetry and fiction to literary criticism and history.

[1] Smith practiced law in Rochester, New York 1921-2, but quickly moved on to literary pursuits.

Artillery of Time (1939) has been described as a "Gone With the Wind of the North"; its 106 chapters were set in Smith's hometown of Watertown, New York.

[3] In 1950 Smith provided the text for composer Hubert Klyne Headley's Symphony #2 (Prelude to a Man).

Smith was a supporter of Distributism in the 1930s; he was at a meeting of Distributists and Agrarians in Nashville, Tennessee in 1936 and signed the resulting manifesto.