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Announcement: 16th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize Results

We are pleased to annouce the winners of this year's Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. All poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 27.

First Prize: “Pawnshop” by Daisy ... [ read more ]

Announcement: 19th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize Results

We are pleased to annouce the winners of this year's Erskine J. Poetry Prize. All poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 27.

First Prize: “After the War” by ... [ read more ]

Rebecca Lindenberg, Smartish Pace & 32 Poems reading

Rebecca Lindenberg reading for Smartish Pace & 32 Poems at Topics Cafe, Chicago, March 1, 2012.

Interview with Denise Duhamel

CHIMERA: an interview with Denise Duhamel by Karla Huston (Note: this interview was conducted via email between January and May 2004.) Denise Duhamel’s poetry has been described as stunning, suggestive, and startling. Rain Taxi says, "Duhamel’s careful yet freewheeling musings employ a seamlessly shifting digital palette of techniques, devices, and tones, all in the service of a poet able to maintain distance yet remain engaged and human. She is much like this last-call century of ours, searching for the point from which to take a running leap to a new kind of poetry.” Her poems speak with a wild irreverence. Not afraid of critics and naysayers, Duhamel experiments with form and subject, creating poetry that challenges the reader’s notion of what poetry should be. She presents what poetry could be as she fully engages pop culture, the joys and horrors of it, while maintaining the ability to poke fun at our foibles—and make us think. Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Mille et Un Sentiments, a limited edition chapbook (Firewheel Editions), were both published in 2005. ... [ read more ]

Two Poets, Both Alike in Dignity: A review of Paul Muldoon's One Thousand Things Worth Knowing and Joseph Harrison's Shakespeare's Horse

Two poets, both alike in age and erudition, both accomplished: one as famous as poets in the 21st century can be; the other likely unfamiliar to you.   One Thousand Things Worth Knowing, Paul Muldoon’s twelfth collection, begins with “Cuthbert and the Otters,” an occasional elegy composed for the funeral of Seamus Heaney. The central narrative, developed at intervals throughout the poem, concerns Saint Cuthbert and the otters who took care of him while he ... [ read more ]