18th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize Results
June 1st, 2019
All poems published in Smartish Pace, Issue 26
First Prize: On the Footage of Monet Painting—Samuel Cheney (page 88)
Second Prize: Poem With Food—Rennie Ament (page 98)
Third Prize: It's Okay—John Smith (page 36)
Finalists:
Wake-up Call—Armen Davoudian (page 1)
Sister (51) & Sister (39) Load the BB Gun—Charity Gingerich (Page 54)
My Inability to Remember the Dry Cleaner's Name—Amy S. Lerman (page 94)
The Arms Race—Nate Maxson (page 96)
Yesterday at the Tailgate Party—Marjorie Saiser (page 37)
"Body of Yeck is Recovered Today"—Connor Yeck (page 18)
Prize Judge: Stephen Reichert
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.
