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SP’s Best New Poets Nominations
March 4th, 2009 Smartish Pace has nominated Adam Giannelli and Stephen Kampa for Best New Poets, 2009 (www.bestnewpoets.org). In 2008 we nominated Amber L. Cohen and Bro. Yao; and in 2007,…
Dubai International Poetry Festival Begins Today
March 3rd, 2009 More than 100 poets from 45 countries will participate in the 2nd annual festival that runs from March 3rd to 10th. The festival will launch the opening of…
Allen Grossman Wins Bollingen Prize
March 1st, 2009 Allen Grossman has been named the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Established in 1949, the $100,000 prize is awarded biennially to an…
More Poet Laureates
February 26th, 2009 Rockland County, New York, became one of just a handful of counties in the US to create a Poet Laureate position. Dan Masterson, a 75 year old…
Anne Frydman Dixon Dies
February 23rd, 2009 Anne Frydman Dixon died on February 23 in Baltimore, MD from Multiple Sclerosis. Poet, teacher, translator, Chekhov Scholar. Mother of Sophia and Antonia Dixon; wife of Stephen Dixon;…
Jen Hadfield Wins T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize
February 11th, 2009 The T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize panel comprised of Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill, and chaired by British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, selected Jen Hadfield’s Nigh-No-Place as the 2009 winner. Hadfield…
Silicon Valley ISO Poet; Apply Within
January 29th, 2009 Have a book? Live in Santa Clara County? You, too, can sing the body electronic as Silicon Valley’s poet laureate. With persistent rumors of upcoming poetry readings in…
John Updike Dies at 76
January 27th, 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and poet, John Updike died of lung cancer today. He was born on March 18, 1932 in Reading, Penn., and died at his residence…
Roger Lathbury, Publishing Hero!
January 26th, 2009 We at Smartish Pace have long been huge fans of publisher Roger Lathbury, his goodwill & wit, his pod, his ability to make AWPs more exciting than they should…
Robert Burns Turns 250
January 25th, 2009 Robert Burns, a.k.a. the Bard of Ayrshire, The Bard, Rabbie Burns, Ploughman Poet & Scotland’s Favourite Son, was born 250 years ago today in Alloway, South Ayrshire,…