Artist Index

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 AWP 2022! Table 1351

By pwsadmin | March 20, 2022

Hey friends, we’re at AWP this year (this week!) in Philly so please stop by Table 1351 and say hello! We’ve been going to AWPs since 2002 and we’re as…

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21st Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize Winners Announced

By pwsadmin | March 20, 2022

First Prize: Tell Me How You Feel and I’ll Tell You How You Feel—Daisy BassenSecond Prize: Good Friday, 2020. Going Nowhere.—Jason GrayThird Prize: Youth—Felicity Sheehy FinalistsComing of Age on My…

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Beullah Rose Poetry Prize Winners Announced

By pwsadmin | February 9, 2022

Here are the winners of the 18th annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize as selected by prize judge Traci O’Dea. All poems will appear in Smartish Pace Issue 29 (April 2022).…

Smartish Pace Ranks 9th in 2022 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry

By pwsadmin | January 6, 2022

We rose from 30th last year to 9th this year and we were the only magazine to move into the top 10. Look out Paris Review! : ) Here’s the…

Harvey, Gayle Elen

By pwsadmin | February 5, 2021

Levin, Phillis

By pwsadmin | February 5, 2021

Phillis Levin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Mercury (2001) and May Day (2008), both from Penguin, and the editor of The Penguin Book of Sonnet (Penguin, 2001). Her honors include a…

McHugh, Ashley Anna

By pwsadmin | February 5, 2021

Ashley Anna McHugh is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas and is a senior editor of Linebreak. Her book, Into These Knots (Ivan R. Dee), and chapbook, Become All…

Mysko, Madeleine

By pwsadmin | February 5, 2021

Madeleine Mysko teaches creative writing in the part-time graduate program of The Johns Hopkins University and coordinates the Reflections column for the American Journal of Nursing. Her work has appeared in Bellevue…

Myers, Jack

By pwsadmin | February 5, 2021

Jack Myers has written fifteen books of and about poetry, the latest being The Glowing River: New & Selected Poems (Invisible Cities, 2001), which won the Violet Crown Award. In…

Mycue, Edward

By pwsadmin | February 5, 2021

Edward Mycue is the author of four books of poetry including Night Boats (Minotaur Editions, 1999). His fifth book, Assualt on Summer, will be published by Norton Coker Press in…