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Hailey Leithauser Wins Emily Dickinson First Book Award
May 17th, 2012 The Poetry Foundation awarded Hailey Leithauser the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. The occasional award is designed to recognize an American poet of at least 40 years of…
Adrienne Rich Dies
March 29th, 2012 Baltimore native Adrienne Rich, an award-winning poet whose socially conscious work influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died at 82. She died Tuesday…
Herrera Appointed California Poet Laureate
March 22nd, 2012 Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed California Poet Laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. Herrera, 63 and son of Mexican migrant workers, will be the first Hispanic writer to serve…
Poems By Me Drawings By You
March 7th, 2012 Frank O’Hara and Jan Cremer:The Amsterdam New York Set or The End of the Far West. 1963 / 1978 Load of Fun120 W. North Ave.Baltimore, MD Fridays: 6…
SP Poet Noah Falck on NPR
February 15th, 2012 Poet Noah Falck was featured on NPR’s 91.3 WYSO. He read a couple of poems including “Staring Contest” which appears in the next issue of Smartish Pace. Listen here.
O’Bama Honors Dove & Ashbery
February 13th, 2012 President Obama awarded one of the nation’s highest honors for artists and scholars to an eclectic group of Americans who he said have left an “indelible mark…
Wislawa Szmborska Dies at 88.
February 3rd, 2012 Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died of lung cancer on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. The next issue of Smartish Pace (#19, April, 2012) includes…
Frank O’Hara & Jan Cremer in Baltimore
February 1st, 2012 Load of Fun Gallery (LOF/g), in collaboration with the i.e. Reading Series, hosts a silkscreen print exhibition and poetry reading. The exhibition combines silkscreen printed poems of Baltimore native Frank O’Hara,…
Naomi Long Madgett Wins Kresge Eminent Artist Award
January 27th, 2012 Poet Naomi Long Madgett won the $50,000 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist Award funded by The Kresge Foundation. The award is given annually to an exceptional artist who has made a…
Jeanne Wagner Wins Beullah Rose Poetry Prize
December 9th, 2011 Jeanne Wagner’s poem “Fanlight” won the 8th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. Here are the complete prize results; all poems will be published in Smartish Pace,…