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Smartish Pace – Issue 15

Andrew Shields Smartish Pace – Issue 15by Smartish PaceSmartish Pace, Inc.2008$10 Issue 15 of Smartish Pace contains three of my translations from…

Kascha Semonovitch Observing thoughts, as a Buddhist might, does not make art, although it might make a better person. …

Joyce S. Brown The poetry in Marilyn Nelson’s 1997 National Book Award Finalist collection of new and selected poems, The Fields…

Eric Hoffman In this excellent collection of poems, Robert Murphy’s language is elemental. The earth and his sense of the…

Maggie Schwed This first book of poems by Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone(Turtle Point…

Haines Eason We just may witness open dialogue between our nation and Cuba in the foreseeable future. And since the…

Haines Eason Wanting in seriousness but not in any respects lacking for vivacious word-play, Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble is an honest, agile, yet…

Magdelyn Hammond Shara McCallum’s first collection, The Water Between Us, may be a typical first book of poetry that moves through…

Isaac Cates Much madness is divinest sense, or so we are told. Sure, there are a few cliquish strains of…

Will Grofic Sarah Manguso’s book The Captain Lands in Paradise starts with an epigraph of the log of Christopher Columbus where upon…