Dale Smith is an associate professor of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. His writing on rhetoric and poetics has appeared in Jacket 2, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life. He is the author of one book of critical scholarship, Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, and four books of poetry, including American Rambler, The Flood and the Garden, Black Stone, and Susquehanna.

Slow Poetry in America, is available through Cuneiform Press.