Dale Martin Smith is a poet, editor, literary scholar, and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of the The Size of Paradise (knife|fork|book, 2024), a finalist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize, and six other books of poetry. 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). A new book of poems and essays, The Passenger, will be published by Wave Books in fall 2026.