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Dale Smith

Dale Smith is as an Associate Professor of English at Ryerson University, Toronto, and is the author, most recently, of Slow Poetry in America (2014) and Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (2012).

Articles

A new translation of the Aeneid revives its power as a spoken text.

Dale Smith

Stacy Szymaszek’s hart island.

Dale Smith

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