Dave Smith is a poet, novelist, critic, and past editor of The Southern Review. He is currently the Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry at Johns Hopkins University. Smith is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Recent works include The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000, Floating on Solitude: Three Volumes of Poetry, Fate’s Kite: Poems 1991-1995, Night Pleasures, Little Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems 1992-2004, and Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry.