City where one might find a smithy hugging posh French poet (8)

'posh french poet' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'city where one might find a smithy hugging' is the wordplay.
'city' becomes 'LA' (Los Angeles).
'where one might find' becomes 'u' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a smithy' becomes 'forge' (synonyms).
'hugging' indicates putting letters inside.
'u' going inside 'forge' is 'forgue'.
'la'+'forgue'='LAFORGUE'

Can you help me to learn more?