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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This Sunday, 4pm at The Ivy Bookshop with poets Christian Bancroft & @joannafuhrman.bsky.social. The reading includes the best open mic in town (1 poem/3 min). Poets books by @unboundedition.bsky.social & @nupress.bsky.social. #HotL #smartishpace #poetry #openmic #bmoreart #poetryreading #poets

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Friday May 15th (5-8pm) at Fox Gallery (Hampden, Baltimore) join us for a happy hour reception for the exhibit "Affordance" featuring art by Mark Cameron, Kristin Fuller, and Stephen Reichert. Details: www.facebook.com/events/15428... #bmoreart #art #artgallery #artexhibit #paintings

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

@reggieh.bsky.social has new poetry in issue 32! Available at smartishpace.com. REGINALD HARRIS is the author of Autogeography (@nupress.bsky.social 2013), winner of the Cave Canem/Northwestern U. Press Poetry Prize, & 10 Tongues (Three Conditions, 2002), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Cate Lycurgus in Issue 32! Maybe order a copy at smartishpace.com. Cate is the author of Seacliff (bsky.app/profile/bull..., 2025). Her work appears in The Best American Poetry 2020 (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social). She lives in San Jose where she interviews for 32 Poems & teaches. #AWP27 #SmartishPace

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sunday at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series presents John Wall Barger & Hillary Gonzalez at The Ivy Bookshop! The reading includes the best open mic in town. Join us on the patio as we return to The Ivy for the summer! @johnwallbarger.bsky.social @hillarygonzalez.bsky.social #poetry #bmoreart #openmic

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Friday 3/6 (7pm), at this historic church, 5 minutes from AWP. Free event, wine & beer. Featuring Clare Banks, Jan Beatty, Armen Davoudian, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Campbell McGrath, Bradley Paul, Alexis Sears, Dean Smith, Chris Watkins & David Yezzi. #AWP #AWP26 #SmartishPace

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Tonight at this historic former church w/ 32 Poems, Barrelhouse & Smartish Pace, 5 min from AWP. Free beer & poetry. Part of the fun of this event is seeing inside an iconic long-shuttered 19th-c. church, but the venue is not ADA accessible & has quirky bathrooms. #awp26 #AWP

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Tonight! Start AWP at this historic former church with 32 Poems, Barrelhouse & Smartish Pace 5 min from AWP. Free: beer & poetry. Part of the fun of this event is seeing inside an iconic long-shuttered 19th-century church, but it means the venue is not ADA accessible and has quirky bathrooms. #AWP26

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Today at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series presents Rebecca Aronson & @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social at Bird in Hand & the reading includes the best open mic in town! You'll have time to watch the sports ball game. #poetry #smartishpace #poetrycommunity #poets #poems @milkweededitions.bsky.social

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Sunday 1/11, a celebration of the latest (and final) edition of THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025 with featured poets and guest editor Terence Winch! 4pm at Bird in Hand. You don’t want to miss this one!

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

💥 Sunday Dec. 14th 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with @iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social & includes the best open mic in town so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #creativewriting #openmic #SmartishPace #poets #poet #poems #books

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Here are the winners of the 24th annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize! Thank you and congratulations to Michael Montlack, Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Aris Keshav, Rebecca Boyle, Julie Hanson, Michele Lent Hirsch, Matt Hohner, Zebulon Huset, Ibe Liebenberg, Marc Nasdor, and Burnside Soleil.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We are pleased to annouce the winners and finalists of our 21st annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize! All poems appear in Smartish Pace. Cheers! Judges: Clare Banks & Traci O'Dea

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

💥 Today at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok! 💥 The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetryreading #birdinhand #SmartishPace #HOTL #Bmoreart #BaltimoreArt #Baltimore

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

💥 Sunday October 12th, 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop with poets A.M. Juster & Jennifer Keith! 💥 The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetryreading #IvyBookshop #SmartishPace #Poets #HOTL #Bmoreart #SmartishPacePoets

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Many of you know Clare Banks from her role hosting The HOT L Poets Series & editing Smartish Pace, today she reads from her debut poetry collection, Notes on Endings, with poet Lindsay Bernal. Ivy Bookshop, 4pm.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Sunday! 4pm at the Baltimore Book Festival poets Eileen G’Sell & @haydensaunier.bsky.social read along with a few suprise poets. Stage located at 400 E 31st St, Baltimore, MD 21218 - we hope to see you there! Thanks to The Ivy Bookshop for sponsoring us!

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Forrest Gander is the author of 13 collections including Mojave Ghost (New Directions, 2024); Be With (New Directions, 2018), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and Core Samples from the World (New Directions, 2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award. #poetry

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Today! June 8, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop with poets Reginald Harris & G. H. Mosson! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 7th year, the reading series is sponsored by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

💥 This Sunday! May 11th at 4pm the HOT L Poets Series features poets @hollykarapetkova.bsky.social & @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop on the covered patio! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #HOTL #openmic #poet

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Here's part of Christopher Childers poem "Miasma" that appeared in Smartish Pace having won our Erskine J. Poetry Prize. The poem was later selected for the current volume of The Best American Poetry. #poetry #SmartishPace #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #AmericanPoet

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Bruce Snider is the author of Blood Harmony (@uwiscpress.bsky.social 2025); Fruit (UofWI, 2020); Paradise, Indiana (@pleiadesmag.bsky.social / @lsupress.bsky.social 2012) & The Year We Studied Women (UofWI, 2003). He lives in Baltimore & teaches in the Writing Seminars at @jhu.edu. #SmartishPace

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

@iancappelli.bsky.social's writings appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Blackbird, @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, @theiowareview.bsky.social, The Journal and @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social. He is a creative writing (poetry) PhD student at the @uofdenver.bsky.social.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

@arpagain.bsky.social is the author of a book of poems, How to Remember The World (Foothills, 2018), and two chapbooks of poetry, Song of Days, Torn and Mended (Alice Blue, 2015) and Bread and Water Body (Merriam Frontier Prize, 2003). She lives and works in Missoula, MT. #SmartishPace #Poetry

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Adam Grabowski is author of the chapbook Go On Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020). He is currently the associate poetry editor for The Maine Review and a special education teacher in the Springfield, MA Public Schools system. #poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #creativewriting #AWP

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Kimberly Esslinger in Smartish Pace! Kimberly Esslinger’s poetry has been nominated for a #pushcartprize and Best of the Net & appears in @calyxpress.bsky.social @chironreview.bsky.social Nerve Cowboy & Spillway. She holds an MFA in poetry from CSU Long Beach. #smartishpace #smartishpacepoets

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Tomorrow! Sunday April 13th at 4pm, poets @brandelfrance.bsky.social & @christianteresi.bsky.social read for us at The Ivy Bookshop! Includes an open mic so bring a poem to read. #SmartishPace #PoetryReading #HOTL #BmoreEvents #HOTLPoetsSeries #Poets #Poetry #BaltimoreEvents

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Opening Saturday night! 5pm - 10pm at The Fox Building. An art exhibition featuring Mark Cameron, Kristin Fuller, & Stephen Reichert (Smartish Pace). Details: Mark, Kristin & Steph #bmoreart #art #artexhibition #contemporaryart #bmoreartists #MarkCameron #KristinFuller #StephenReichert #lookbusy

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🚨 Hey Baltimore! Saturday, 9:30am-5pm, visit our table at @CityLitProject - wl have free issues of Smartish Pace, fancy t-shirts & our unwavering good cheer! The event is held at Lord Baltimore Hotel 🚨 #citylit #smartishpace #baltimore #bmorepoetry #baltimorepoetry

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🚨 Hey Baltimore! This Saturday, 9:30am-5pm, visit our table at @CityLitProject - we’ll have free issues of Smartish Pace, fancy t-shirts & our unwavering good cheer! The event is held at Lord Baltimore Hotel 🚨 #citylit #smartishpace #baltimore #bmorepoetry #baltimorepoetry

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New poetry from Paul Muldoon in Smartish Pace! Paul is published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social Also AWP is next week, come to our off-site reading on Wednesday night! Open bar, free food, amazing poets, beautiful venue . . details in photos.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Come to our #AWP Off-Site Reading on Wed. March 26th! Great lineup in a uniquely beautiful venue. Open bar & free food and if/when our loot runs out, a cash bar. We did this last year in KC and it was super duper - see you soon! #AWPOffsite #AWP25 #poetry #smartishpace #countsden #LAPoetry

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

New poetry from @carolynroliver.bsky.social in Smartish Pace! See you all soon in LA at T540. Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine @acrebooks.bsky.social ; Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble @uofupress.bsky.social & (Seven Kitchens). She lives in Massachusetts.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

💡New poetry by @chotchandani.bsky.social in Smartish Pace!💡Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters, the 2023 @perugiapress.bsky.social winner & a debut book featured in @pw.org . She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English at the U. of Nebraska at Omaha.💡 #poetry #SmartishPace #Poets #Poet

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We'll see you soon at #AWP25 in LA! We've been to every AWP since 2003 and it always feels new and exciting thanks to all the new poets and readers we meet each year. @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP #SmartishPace #poets #poetry #creativewriting #losangeles #poems #poet

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

John Kinsella is the author of40+ books of poetry including Spirals, Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023) (UWA, 2024) and Insomnia @wwnorton.bsky.social 2020. A new selected poems, The Darkest Pastoral, will appear with W.W. Norton in 2025, as well as Aphoria, from Turtle Point Press.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

New poems by Beth Ann Fennelly in Smartish Pace! Beth is published by @wwnorton.bsky.social and others. www.smartishpace.com #poets #poetry #smartishpace #smartishpacepoets #poetrycommunity

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@AllisonFieldBell.bsky.social is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at @utah.edu & she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University. She is the author of Without Woman or Body (@finishinglinepress.bsky.social 2025) and Edge of the Sea (Cut Bank, 2025). #poet #smartishpace #poetry

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sunday March 9, 2025 (4pm), The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with poets Hayes Davis & Chris Nealon! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 7th year, the series is sponsored by Smartish Pace (AWP table T540) & Baltimore Poets Theatre.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🔥 New poems from Tom Sleigh! Tom is published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🔥 Tom Sleigh is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The King’s Touch (Graywolf, 2022), winner of the 2023 Paterson Poetry Prize; House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf, 2018); & Station Zed (Graywolf, 2015).

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife (Measure, 2024) and Dirge for an Imaginary World (Able Muse, 2012). He is Associate Editor of Literary Matters and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. ⚫️ #poetry #SmartishPace #poet #StephenReichert #AWP25 #SmartishPacePoet #MatthewBuckleySmith

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Brian Barker is the author of The Black Ocean (SIU 2011), winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition, and The Animal Gospels @tupelopress.bsky.social 2006. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver where he is a Poetry Editor for Copper Nickel. #smartishpace #brianbarker

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Emily Schulten is the author of 3 books, most recently Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia (White Pine). She is the Poet Laureate of the City of Key West & professor at The College of the Florida Keys. @emilyschulten.bsky.social #poetry #emilyschulten #smartishpace

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Josiah Cox is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and The Writing Seminars at @jhu.edu His poetry appears in Bad Lilies; Commonweal; Literary Matters; and @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social , as the Poem of the Month. #poet #smartishpace #poetry #josiahcox @hopkinsreview.bsky.social #baltimorepoetry #poets

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