Michael Brown & Edgar Kunz Poetry Reading - March 10th
March 10th, 2019
3/10/2019, 4:00 pm at Bird in Hand - 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218
A longtime resident of the Bronx, Michael Brown studies at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library. He has received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets and Poetry by the Sea, and his poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Hopkins Review, American Chordata, and elsewhere. He currently works at the Schomburg Center's Manuscript and Rare Books Division in Harlem.
Edgar Kunz is a writer from New England and author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work was featured recently by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith in her podcast The Slowdown. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the MFA program at Salve Regina University.
THE HOT L POETS SERIES, a monthly reading on Second Sundays, is co-sponsored by Smartish Pace magazine and the Baltimore Poets Theater
Thea Brown Reading
February 10th, 2019
Watch the debut reading in our new series! February 10, 2019. The HOT L Open is a reading series held on the second Sunday of the month at Bird in Hand, Baltimore, and is sponsored by Smartish Pace magazine and the Baltimore Poets Theater.
Jane Satterfield Reading
February 10th, 2019
Watch the debut reading in our new series! February 10, 2019. The HOT L Open is a reading series held on the second Sunday of the month at Bird in Hand, Baltimore, and is sponsored by Smartish Pace magazine and the Baltimore Poets Theater.
The HOT L Open - monthly poetry reading series!
January 21st, 2019
Smartish Pace is excited to announce that we're co-hosting a monthly poetry reading series with Baltimore Poets Theater! Readings will happen every 2nd Sunday at Bird in Hand in Charles Villiage, Baltimore (11 E 33rd St.). The first reading is Feb. 10th at 4 pm and features Thea Brown & Jane Satterfield. Each reading will include an open mic (1 poem per poet, no longer than 3 minutes) and two featured poets. The event is hosted by Clare Banks & Stephen Reichert (of Smartish Pace) and David Yezzi (of Baltimore Poets Theater).
Shara McCallum's book, Madwoman, Longlisted for 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
March 19th, 2018
Six books by writers from five Caribbean countries have been announced on the longlist for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. The group includes Smartish Pace poet Shara McCallum's new book, Madwoman. The winners will be announced on April 2, 2018, and the prize of $10,000 will be presented to the overall winner on April 28th, during the eighth annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Port of Spain, April 25th-29th.
Smartish Pace 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations
December 1st, 2017
Editor Stephen Reichert selected the following poems from Issue 24 (April, 2017):
Safia Elhillo: “Self-Portrait With No Flag”
Nausheen Eusuf: “Allegiance”
Jennifer Koiter: “The Messy Girl Feels at Home in New Delhi”
Jacob Polley: “O”
Emily Schulten: “When My Stepbrother Went Missing”
Gerald Stern: “KGB, the Reading"
Poet John Ashbery dies age 90
September 4th, 2017
John Ashbery, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and many others, died on September 3 at age 90. He published over thirty books since 1970 including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and was the first living poet to have a collection of his work published by the Library of America (2008).
Best New Poet Nominations: Hunt & Macormic
March 15th, 2017
Smartish Pace Editor Stephen Reichert nominated Laurel Hunt, and her poem "Glass," and D.M. Macormic, and his poem "Identity Theft," for Best New Poets 2017. SP nominations have won in past years and we hope Hunt and Macormic are both selected this year.
Writer’s Residency: Day Use (near Baltimore)
February 20th, 2017
The Good Contrivance Farm Residency provides a 1200 square foot barn loft apartment on a small, historic farm in central Maryland, 25 miles north of Baltimore. It's run by our friend Ron Tanner and you should check-it-out!
SP Poet Jacob Polley wins T.S. Eliot Prize
January 21st, 2017
Congratulations to Smartish Pace poet Jacob Polley for winning the T.S. Eliot Prize, the world's most prestigious poetry prize, for his new collection Jackself (Picador, 2016). Polley's new poems will appear in the next issue of Smartish Pace, released in Feb. 2016 and available at #AWP and here. Cheers!
