Artist Index

we've featured dozens of amazing visual artists in Smartish Pace over the 20+ years and one day soon all of their information will be on this new silly baby website page of ours but until then well it's just this explanation of why there is no relevant content on this page

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April Is

By pwsadmin | April 1, 2009

April 1st, 2009 International Guitar, Keep America Beautiful, National Anxiety, National Humor, Genocide Prevention, National Welding, National Garden, Alchol Awareness, Immigration Awareness and Poetry Month!Join Smartish Pace this month at Conversations & Connections Writer’s…

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Walt Whitman Under Attack

By pwsadmin | March 27, 2009

March 27th, 2009 Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland is the latest institution to come under attack from the Westboro Baptist Church. The anti-gay group has organized a protest…

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Nils Peterson, Silicon Valley Poet Laureate

By pwsadmin | March 24, 2009

March 24th, 2009 Updating a previous news item, Arts Council Silicon Valley has named Nils Peterson as the first Silicon Valley Poet Laureate. Peterson is a professor emeritus from San…

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World Poetry Day

By pwsadmin | March 21, 2009

March 21st, 2009 Today, March 21st, is World Poetry Day as declared in 1999 by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO). Smartish Pace did its part by hosting a reading…

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Heaney Wins David Cohen Prize

By pwsadmin | March 18, 2009

March 18th, 2009 Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the £40,000 David Cohen prize for literature. Poet laureate and chair of the award’s judges, Andrew Motion, honored Heaney for a body…

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Son of Plath & Hughes Commits Suicide

By pwsadmin | March 17, 2009

March 17th, 2009 Nicholas Hughes, son of poets Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) and Ted Hughes (1930-1998) hanged himself yesterday, March 16th, at his home in Alaska. He was 47 years old.

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Herrera & Kleinzahler Win National Book Critics Circle Award

By pwsadmin | March 13, 2009

March 13th, 2009 The National Book Critics Circle gave out its annual awards at a ceremony at The New School in New York City yesterday. For the first time in…

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U of Buffalo Upgrades Amazing Poetry Collection

By pwsadmin | March 12, 2009

March 12th, 2009 The audio and video collection, of more than 1,300 tapes and reel-to-reel recordings of poetry, at the University of Buffalo will be digitized and catalogued thanks in…

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Who Visits www.smartishpace.com?

By pwsadmin | March 11, 2009

March 11th, 2009 Of the thousands who visited in February, 2009, the greatest number of you were from New York, 9%; followed by Maryland, 8%; California, 6%; Virginia, 5%; DC,…

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British Women go 2 for 2?

By pwsadmin | March 8, 2009

March 8th, 2009 The two most important positions in the British poetry establishment will be filled in the next few weeks and it looks like, for the first time, both…