DEAN BARTOLI SMITH is a published poet and nonfiction author. His new book, Magic Show: Poems (Distribution Partners), is his third collection of poetry following Baltimore Sons: Poems and American Boy: Poems. His poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace, Poetry East, Open City, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Upstreet, among others. Born and raised in Baltimore, he is also the author of Never Easy, Never Pretty: A Fan, A City, A Championship Season. He is the director of Duke University Press.
