Paul Smyth (31 January 1944 – 17 December 2006) was an American poet, writer, and teacher.
In addition to poetry, he wrote two novels and a prose-poem memoir before moving back to New England.
Two of his books were illustrated by the artist Barry Moser, and several of his poems have been set to music by his half brother, trumpeter/composer John D'earth.
He died in Charlottesville, Virginia, just after completing a book, A Plausible Light: New and Collected Poems.
Plausible Light: New and Collected Poems (El Leon Literary Arts, 2008) Conversions (University of Georgia Press, 1974) The Cardinal Sins: A Bestiary (Pennyroyal Press, ill. Barry Moser, 1980) Thistles and Thorns: Abraham and Sarah at Bethel (Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, ill. Barry Moser, 1977) Fifty Sonnets (Windy Row Press, 1973) Shadowed Leaves (Press Porcepic, 1973) Native Grass (Windy Row Press, 1972) During his life, Paul Smyth won the Dillon Memorial Prize, a Mount Holyoke College Faculty Fellowship, and three annual awards from the Lyric Foundation.