Dale M. Smith

Dale Martin Smith is a poet, editor, literary scholar, and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of the poetry collections The Size of Paradise (knife|fork|book, 2024), a finalist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize; Flying Red Horse (Talonbooks 2021); Slow Poetry in America (Cuneiform Press, 2014); Black Stone (effing press, 2007); and American Rambler (Thorp Springs, 2000). Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (University of Alabama Press, 2012) and three edited editions: That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making (University of New Mexico Press, 2025), An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson (University of New Mexico Press, 2017), and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson (University of New Mexico Press, 2017). His essays and poetry have appeared in Poetry, The Walrus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, and Lana Turner. With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, from 1998 to 2004.