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October 1st, 2012 Jorie Graham has won the £10,000 Forward Prize for Poetry for her collection P L A C E. She is the first female recipient of the prize since Kathleen…

September 30th, 2012 Redmond’s new poet laureate is Jeannine Hall Gailey. Her poetry appears in Issue 15 of Smartish Pace.

September 25th, 2012 Check-out the latest at B O D Y because they’re on top of their game and published a poem from our very own Associate Editor, Clare Banks.

June 7th, 2012 Trethewey, 46, an English and creative writing professor at Emory University will be the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. The Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation’s first poet laureate…

May 22nd, 2012 Matt Hart’s poem “Beyond and Beyonder” has been selected for Pushcart Prize XXXVII. The poem originally appeared in Smartish Pace, Issue 19.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…