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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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…