Rod is the author of Music or Honesty, The Good House, Poèmes de l'araignée, In Memory of My Theories, The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy and New Mannerist Tricycle. He edits the journal Aerial, manages Bridge Street Books, and publishes Edge Books in Washington, DC. Smith is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley.