Dale Smith (poet)

Dale Smith
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Texas
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Occupation(s)Poet, professor

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.[1] Having completed his PhD at the University of Texas[2] in Austin, he and his wife, the poet Hoa Nguyen, now live in Toronto Ontario, Canada, where he is an assistant professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.

While in San Francisco, Smith was co-editor of Mike & Dale's Younger Poets.[3] 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 column for Bookslut.[4] Smith's poetry and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2002. In 2007, he wrote the introduction to Ed Dorn's Way More West (2007, Penguin).[5]

  1. ^ Johnson, Kent (2001). "Jacket 15 - Dale Smith in conversation with Kent Johnson". jacketmagazine.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  2. ^ biographical data from the contributor's note at Big Bridge (issue 12)
  3. ^ "Bigbridge.org". Bigbridge.org. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  4. ^ "Articles by Dale Smith". Bookslut.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-09. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  5. ^ "Way More West by Edward Dorn: 9780143038696 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.