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Smartish Pace
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Poetry magazine that publishes poems & translations, & hosts The HOT L Poets Series; est. 1998 by editor Stephen Reichert. Baltimore, MD. Smartishpace.com
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💥 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!

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December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Rick Hilles reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us tomorrow December 14th (4pm) with poets
@iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social at Bird in Hand (Bmore)! #poetry #smartishpace #poetrycommunity #poet #creativewriting

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Rick Hilles Poetry Reading
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December 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Samyak Shertok reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us tomorrow December 14th (4pm) with poets
@iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social
at Bird in Hand (Bmore)! #poetry #smartishpace #poetrycommunity #poet #creativewriting

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Samyak Shertok Poetry Reading
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December 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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.
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Erin Barach, Donald Berger, Sophia, and Camilo Montoya reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us for our next reading on December 14th with poets Michael B. Tager and Burgi Zenhaeusern ( @burgi.bsky.social )at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)!

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Erin Barach, Donald Berger, Sophia, and Camilo Montoya reading in The HOT L Poets Series
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November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
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three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them. front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing. yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Poets G. H. Mosson, Jordan Keeney & Lisa Green Cudek reading in open mic at The HOT L Poet Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us for our next reading on December 14th with poets Michael B. Tager and Burgi Zenhaeusern ( @burgi.bsky.social ) at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)!

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G. H. Mosson, Jordan Keeney & Lisa Green Cudek reading in The HOT L Poets Series
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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💥 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
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Clare Banks poetry reading for the release of her new book NOTES ON ENDINGS on September 27, 2025 at The Iy Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Clare Banks Poetry Reading
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November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Lindsay Bernal's poetry reading recently at The Ivy Bookshop! Nice shirt. : )

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Lindsay Bernal Poetry Reading
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November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Poet Jennifer Keith read for us on Oct. 12th at The Ivy Bookshop - thanks to everyone who attended, that was a great crowd! We'll see you again on Sunday Nov. 9, 2025 at 4pm at Bird in Hand with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok!

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October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Poet A.M. Juster read for us on Oct. 12th at The Ivy Bookshop
- thanks to everyone who attended, that was a great crowd! We'll see you again on Sunday Nov. 9, 2025 at 4pm at Bird in Hand with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok! #poets #poems
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A. M. Juster Poetry Reading
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October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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💥 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
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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.
September 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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!
September 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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
July 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Praise be the #poetry editors of these and other lit mags!
🖋️✏️For sustaining the soul 🪭🫶🏼
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May 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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.
June 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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💥 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
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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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.

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May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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John Kinsella is the author of 40+ poetry books including Spirals (2014-2023) (UWA, 2024) & Insomnia (@wwnorton.com 2020). A new selected poems, The Darkest Pastoral, will appear with W.W. Norton early in 2025, as well as Aphoria, a collection of poems from Turtle Point Press.

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John Kinsella reading "Europa"
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May 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Chris Nealon reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Mar. 9th. Our next reading is on Sun. May 11, 2025 (4pm) at the Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore) with poets @hollykarapetkova.bsky.social & @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social! Readings sponsored by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre.

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Chris Nealon Poetry Reading
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May 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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@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.
May 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM