Gwynette Smith

“The most important part of living a life is to have something that makes you happy, makes you feel good about living, and makes your life feel worthwhile.”

Gwynette Smith is a vendor and artist for Street Sense Media. Along with selling papers, she has given poetry readings at Busboys and Poets and she is a member of the Speakers Bureau for the National Coalition for the Homeless. In 2015, Gwynette’s novel, “Gayle Tyler, JD” was published on Amazon Kindle. Gwynette is a fan of Viola Davis, “How To Get Away With Murder,” and the back-porch-soul singer Leela James. Her favorite pastimes include photography, writing, illustration classes, traveling, and simply having a good time. In the future, Gwynette hopes to go out West and live near her relatives; for now, she is happy to have housing and a stable environment, and is considering getting a dog.

Here is a gallery featuring some of her photography:

Articles by Gwynette

• Washington: Then and Now

• Looking for Work

• Empty Streets

• Homelessness must end first 

• Good news for seniors

• Don't Sleep On This Election

• Self-Expression Helps Me

• Who Am I

• Never forget

• Be active this Memorial Day

• Feeling bad about being me

• A parting prayer

• Our seniors need help

• My Customers

• How should we handle North Korea?

• Fall is here

• Life experiences

• What It Is Like To Have Been Homeless

• Barriers to Exiting Homelessness

• Street Sense Vendors Respond to Ben Carson

• Treat and Support the Whole Person

• Street Sense Vendors Remember Michael

• My Customers

• The Martin Luther King Jr. Library Closes

• "Say No to Abortion"

• Consistency

• To My Ex-Husband

• Do Your Part, Remove All Obstacles to Vote

• Republicans Should Have Dumped Trump

• Help the Clinic Help You

• How to Build Community

• Making Friends

• My Time

• Mislead

• Who We Are

• A Poem to Reflect On

• Criminality of Being Homeless

• LIVE: National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2015

• Thanksgiving While Being Homeless

• In the DNA

• Homelessness: My Story

• Involve Yourself

• Black Sisters, Epilogue

• Black Sisters, Part 2

• Black Sisters: Part 1

• To Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Song of the Spring

• Ending Some Services at Martha's Table

• Cyber Security

• The Decision of Our Lives

• My Writing

• Gale Goes to Boston

• Who is This One?

• Gayle Goes to Boston

• Gayle Goes To Washington

• Thank You

• National Homelessness Awareness Week

• Landmarks

• The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

• Either Me or You

• Gayle arrives in LA: Part 4

• Ode to Summer

• Gayle Arrives in L.A., Part 3

• Gayle Arrives in LA: Part 2

• The Future

• Fulfillment Part 2

• Fulfillment

• Reality TV

• Fulfillment, Part 2

• Housing for Veterans

• Life Outside the Nest

• Work and the American Dream

• Nothing

• The Votes Most Cast

• Homeless: Why?

• Friendship

• Thank You

• I Remember

• Loretta's Tale