Dale Smith (poet)
Dale Smith (born 1967) is an American poet, editor, and critic. Smith was born and raised in Texas and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco. Having completed his PhD at the University of Texas[1] in Austin, he and his wife, the poet Hoa Nguyen, now live in Toronto, where he is an assistant professor of English at Ryerson University.
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Born | 1967 (age 52–53) |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
Occupation | Poet, professor |
While in San Francisco, Smith was co-editor of Mike & Dale's Younger Poets,[2] which put him in contact with many important poets from previous generations as well as the young poets of his own generation. After moving to Austin in 1998, he and Hoa Nguyen started the small press publishing venture Skanky Possum. From November 2003 to October 2004, then from October 2007 to April 2009, Smith wrote a lively column for Bookslut.[3] Smith's poetry and essays have been widely published, including an appearance in The Best American Poetry 2002. In 2007, he wrote the introduction to Ed Dorn's Way More West[4] (2007, Penguin), and more recently he has authored a work of critical scholarship as well as new poetry.
Works
- American Rambler (Thorp Springs Press, 2000)
- The Flood & The Garden (First Intensity, 2002)
- Coo-coo Fourth July (Backwoods Broadsides, 2002)
- My Vote Counts (BlazeVOX Books, 2004)
- Notes No Answer[5] (Habenicht Press, 2005)
- Black Stone (Effing, 2007)
- Susquehanna[6] (Punch Press, 2008)
- Slow Poetry in America (Cuneiform, 2014)[7]
- Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (University of Alabama Press, 2012)[8]
Resources
- biographical data from the contributor's note at Big Bridge (issue 12)
- "Bigbridge.org". Bigbridge.org. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- "Articles by Dale Smith". Bookslut.com. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
- Graham, Jorie. "Amazon.com". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- "Habenichtpress.com". Habenichtpress.com. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
- "Damnthecaesars.org". Damnthecaesars.org. 2009-06-25. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
- http://cuneiformpress.com/?product=dale-smith-slow-poetry-in-america
- "Poets Beyond the Barricade". University of Alabama Press. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
External links
Poetry
- Nine poems from Black Stone at Liminalities
- from Notes No Answer at New American Writing
- from Sons at Fascicle
- http://liminalities.net/9-4/slowpoetry.pdf
- http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/03/poetry/dale-smith
Prose
- Reading Philip Whalen an essay
- Philip Whalen: An Introduction another essay on Philip Whalen
- Space Suits an essay on Robert Creeley
- The Romantic-Modern Lyric essay at Jacket
- Edward Dorn's Coups notes on the work of Ed Dorn
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dale-smith
- http://www.thevolta.org/inreview-mainpage.html
Misc
- To Be a Good Finder Smith in conversation with Kent Johnson at Jacket
- Relational Poetics a dialogue between Smith and Alan Gilbert
- Review of Pierre Joris's 4 x 1
- http://therumpus.net/2013/01/poets-beyond-the-barricade-by-dale-m-smith/
- http://jacket2.org/commentary/poetry-and-enactments-public-space
- http://theconversant.org/?p=1731
- http://jacketmagazine.com/38/iv-smith-goldsmith.shtml