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Alison Pelegrin Wins Erskine J. Poetry Prize
December 1st, 2011 With her poem “Pantoum of the Endless Hurricane Debris,” Alison Pelegrin won the 11th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. Here are the complete prize results; all…
Smartish Pace’s Pushcart Prize Nominations
November 30th, 2011 Smartish Pace 2011 Pushcart Prize Nominations, made by Editor Stephen Reichert From Issue 18 (April, 2011) Anthony DiMatteo: “In Our Place”Matt Hart: “Beyond and Beyonder”Amy Pickworth: “The Ohio…
Mothers’ Garden Poetry Prize
November 9th, 2011 In partnership with Smartish Pace, Friends of Mothers’ Garden offers a citywide poetry contest for Baltimore City residents. The winning poem will be engraved on a plaque and displayed in…
Tomas Segovia Dies
November 8th, 2011 Poet and essayist Tomas Segovia died in the Mexican capital of complications to the cancer he suffered. He was 84. The Spanish-born Segovia, who went to Mexico…
Patricia Frolander, Wyoming Poet Laureate
November 7th, 2011 Wyoming Gov. Mead appointed Patricia Frolander as the state’s poet laureate. Patricia’s first book, “Grassland Genealogy,” was published in 2009. Her poetry has been published in numerous…
Robert Pinsky Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
November 6th, 2011 Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN writers group in California. Pinsky said the $1,000 award is special because of PEN’s dual role…
Florence Parry Heide Dies
October 27th, 2011 Florence Parry Heide, who wrote dozens of books of prose and poetry for children, often enhanced with drawings by famed illustrators, has died at her home in…
John Giorno Appears in REM video
October 15th, 2011 Poet John Giorno appears in the new video for REM’s new song “We All Go Back To Where We Belong.” Michael Stipe said that working with Giorno…
Poet Tomas Transtromer Wins Nobel Prize
October 6th, 2011 After many years of being considered a frontrunner, Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Foundation released a statement…
One-of-a-kind Smartish Pace Covers
September 10th, 2011 Artist friends of Smartish Pace made one-of-a-kind covers for Smartish Pace Issues 17 and 18. Buy one! Artists: Clare Banks, Susan Campbell, Joel Feinberg, Jared Fischer, Natalie Kahla, Jeff Lewandowski, Maeve Banks Reichert,…