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May 15th, 2009 The Smartish Pace Issue 16 release party is tonight, Fri. May 15, 2009 (8pm), at Cyclops in Baltimore. Poetry, Music, Food and Drinks. Readings by Matt Anserello, Lucy Biederman, Maggie Glover, Reginald Harris, Alex…

May 2nd, 2009 Craig Arnold, 41, vanished after hiking up to the volcano on the island of Kuchinoerabu-jima in the northern Ryuky Islands of southern Japan. He is visiting the island…

May 1st, 2009 Replacing Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy was named to a 10-year term as the United Kingdom’s Poet Laureate. The first woman and first openly gay poet serving…

April 21st, 2009 Linda Gregg, 66, won the third annual Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award given to an author who has written at least one book of “recognized literary…

April 20th, 2009 Beating out Frank Bidart and Ruth Stone for the award, W.S. Merwin won this year’s (and his second overall) Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper…

April 17th, 2009 Thanks to the good folks at Verse Daily for featuring Bruce Bond’s Sand today, and for featuring Maggie Glover’s “On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally” and Sherman Alexie’s “Missed Connections” earlier…

April 14th, 2009 Fanny Howe won the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, the prize awards $100,000. Ange Mlinko won the Randall Jarrell Award…

April 11th, 2009 Poet Deborah Digges died yesterday (Friday night) at the McGuirk Alumni Stadium at the University of Massachusetts, in what police are calling a suicide. She was the author of…

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…

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…

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…

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…