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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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

January 18th, 2017 All poems published in Smartish Pace Issue 24.  First Prize – “When My Stepbrother Went Missing” by Emily SchultenSecond Prize – “Family Funhouse” by Matt KelseyThird Prize – “Neighbors”…