Thanks for asking Sherman Alexie questions; he's writing his answers & they will appear soon. Read Elizabeth Spires' answers from her Feb. 1, 2009 Q&A.

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Harold Norse Dies at 92

Harold Norse, a San Francisco poet often associated with the Beats, has died at age 92. He was born July 6, 1916 in New York City and lived in SF since ... [ read more ]

Ken Chen Wins Yale Series of Younger Poets

Ken Chen, the executive director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, won this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. The winning manuscript, Juvenilia, was selected by current judge Louise ... [ read more ]

Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie talking on October 10, 2001. Alexie has 11 pages of new poems in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (April, 2009).

Interview with Karoly Sandor

STEPHEN REICHERT:You were born in Budapest, Hungary on August 23, 1931. How did you make your way to Canada in 1957 and what are your memories of Budapest? KAROLY SANDOR: I had an active part in the 1956 revolution. Worried over this my wife and I decided to leave the country. They caught and jailed us. We escaped, went to Veinna, Austria, four days later to England, five months later to Canada. To the second part of your question about my memories of Budapest: The most beautiful, inspiring, on the account of its women and history, city in the world, also a very tough place if you have a mild complexion and live in a working-class district. The street where I lived was 3 blocks long, when I was five, it had six pubs. In 1996 I was interviewed by the Hungarian Radio's English Language Broadcast program. I told them about remembering buildings, people in them, the fights after the dances, the smiles of those who tolerated by infractions. How did they do that? I took my clothes off on that program (Charlie Coutts Director, retired since) and confessed: I am in love with Budapest. REICHERT: How ... [ read more ]

Elizabeth Spires Reading

9/20/2009 (3:00pm) -- (4:30pm)

The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201

Free

The Smartish Pace Reading Series continues with poet Elizabeth Spires and TBA. Ms. Spires will read from the most recent of her twelve books, The Wave-Maker (Norton, 2008) and I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings (FSG, 2009), and sign them after the reading.

New Year\'s Poetry Marathon

1/1/2010 (1:00pm) -- (2:00pm)

Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224

$10

An all morning, all day performance with 50+ poets and dozens of musical acts. Smartish Pace editors Clare Banks and Stephen Reichert will host one hour that will feature 6 or 7 poets from Smartish Pace. TBA by Sept. 1, 2009. This event is well attended each year, in a cool space, and super duper way to start the new year!

http://www.creativealliance.org/

Domain of Perfect Affection

On its cover, Robin Becker’s sixth collection features images of postage stamps for imagined countries created by Donald Evans (1945-1977), the American artist who died in a fire in the Netherlands. The postage stamps capture an extraordinary amount of imaginative detail and contain worlds in miniature, much like Becker’s poems. These postage stamps, like the poems, act as emissaries of foreign – yet seemingly familiar – lands. The collection’s title comes from Patricia Cronin’s 1999 ... [ read more ]