External links
- Nine poems from Black Stone at Liminalities
- from Notes No Answer at New American Writing
- from Sons at Fascicle
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
| Alma mater | University 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]
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Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".
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