In 1969 he founded
Back Door, a poetry magazine, and edited its first five issues (through 1972); from 1974 to 1978 he coedited the remaining issues (no. 6-no. 11/12) with Robert DeMott. Since 1979 he has served as poetry and fiction editor of the
Rocky Mountain Review, and in 1978 he began a three-year term as a member of the board of directors of Associated Writing Programs.
From the outset of his career in the late 1960s, when he began publishing poetry in numerous little magazines and journals, Dave Smith has worked with an exalted conception about the function and purpose of poetry that now marks him as a legitimate heir to the Romantic tradition in America--the only tradition he regards "worth prolonged consideration." His conception of poetry as a redemptive act stems from his own formative experience, explained in a recent interview with H.A.
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