Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

Passing Fancy

I know
you were supposed to
be the great soul who
was my true
love.  That was very long ago.

Beecher Smith attended Millsaps College where he received his B.A. degree in 1971. He obtained his law degree from the University of Tennessee in 1974. Smith is the author of Recovering My Sanity: Poems and Short Stories (Zapizdat Publications, 1996)(Xlibris Corp., 2000); he also writes horror?suspense stories. Smith was named the MidSouth Writers Association poet laureate in 1996 and the Association's prose writer of the year for 1998. From 1994 to 1995 he served as president of the Poetry Society of Tennessee, and in 1995 was named poet laureate of the society.
Smith served as the personal attorney for Elvis Presley during the last year of his life. He is now a solo practitioner in Memphis.