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“I came to read.”

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Based upon her 2024 Page Lecture, In the Field

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GG Award Winner & Kingston Poet Laureate

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SADIQA DE MEIJER Fieldwork

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“There is a wound the size of paradise.”

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2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST

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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 ParadiseFlying Red HorseSlow Poetry in AmericaBlack StoneAmerican Rambler, as well as the Knife Fork Book chapbooks, Sons, and Blur. Born in Dallas, he earned a BA and PhD in English from the University of Texas, and an MA in Poetics from New College of California. Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 and two edited editions, An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson. His essays and poetry have appeared in PoetryThe WalrusLA Review of BooksBoston Review, and Lambda Literary. With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, from 1998 to 2004. His essay collection, That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press.


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