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What Time of Year Is It?
December 11th, 2010 We ask ourselves that when the perennial questions of poetry’s relevance begin to percolate around the criterati. Anis Shivani, of the Huffington Post, considers the future of…
Smartish Pace Pushcart Prize Nominations
December 1st, 2010 Smartish Pace 2010 Pushcart Prize Nominations, made by Editor Stephen Reichert From Issue 17 (April, 2010) David Bergman: “When to Call My Mother”Michael Collier: “Object to Be Destroyed”Miriam…
Beullah Rose Poetry Prize Winners Announced
November 28th, 2010 7th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish PaceJudges Clare Banks & Traci O’Dea1st Place: “Bitter Berries” by Marguerite Thoburn Watkins2nd Place: “Linguini Fini No. 8” by Linda…
The Trouble with Poetry
November 20th, 2010 is that it isn’t being taught. MIT recently came under fire for dropping its advanced poetry workshop in order to enroll students in “Communicating with Mobile Technology”…
Terrance Hayes Wins National Book Award
November 19th, 2010 Poet Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for Lighthead (Penguin Books). His new poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 17. Finalists for the NBA in poetry were Kathleen Graber, The…
Erskine J. Poetry Prize Winners Announced
November 17th, 2010 10th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish PaceJudged by Editor Stephen Reichert1st Place: “In Our Place” by Anthony DiMatteo2nd Place: “Santiago Avenue” by Jeanne Wagner3rd Place: “Dublin” by Rachel Bennett…
MIT – Poetry = A Travesty
November 14th, 2010 This past week, graduate MIT student Emily Ruppel wrote an editorial for the MIT newspaper “The Tech” that offered a formula even a poet can understand: “MIT…
Donovan, Springer & Thompson Win Whiting Awards
October 28th, 2010 Three poets won 2010 Whiting Awards. Matt Donovan won with his book “Vellum.” Jane Springer won with “Dear Blackbird” and L.B. Thompson with “Tendered Notes: Poems of Love and Mone.”…
National Book Award Finalists
October 13th, 2010 The 2010 Natinal Book Award Finalists were announced: Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press). Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Viking Penguin). James Richardson, By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press). C.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper…
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October 1st, 2010 Interested in some international poetry? Four issues, unknown contributors, cutting-edge illustrations, no adverts or sponsors. Check out the blogs of a 23-year-old editor of the first British…