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Naomi Long Madgett Wins Kresge Eminent Artist Award

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 longstanding contribution to ... [ read more ]

Jeanne Wagner Wins Beullah Rose Poetry Prize

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, Issue ... [ read more ]

Elizabeth Spires, Clare Banks & Christine Stewart, BMA Reading

Smartish Pace poets Elizabeth Spires & Christine Stewart, and Smartish Pace Associate Editor Clare Banks, read their ekphrastic poems at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 16, 2009.

Interview with Christopher Buckley

In his new book, Star Apocrypha, the poet Christopher Buckley reaches for a higher lyric pitch and succeeds exponentially. Buckley's poetry addresses matters of this world and of the soul, daily life and the lifeof the imagination with brilliant language and finesse. His poems perform aneloquent dance between memory and the here and now, turning time into the verysame stuff as the clouds and stars.In the following interview, the poet discusses contemporary poetry and his latest book, Star Apocrypha.Maggie Paul: Can you recall some of your earliest experiences with poetry and how they influenced your decision to become a poet?Christopher Buckley: My earliest memory of poetry is from Mt. Carmel School in Montecito fourth grade, fifth? I wrote a poem for Mother’s Day in class, the nun passing out white paper and blue construction paper to paste it on. I remember this because I found it years later in a trunk, my mother had saved it. It was in fact in quatrains rhyming abab, three or four of them with sunlight and bluebirds flying about the edges of the stanzas. I think I came across it while I was in college ... [ read more ]

AWP

2/29/2012 (8:00am) -- 3/3/2012 (11:55pm)

Hilton Chicago & Palmer House Hilton, Table K21

Bookfair is Free on Sat

Please stop by table K21 for the new issue, t-shirts, one-of-a-kind SP merch & fun for all. The SP editors look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012bookfair.php

32 Poems & Smartish Pace Reading

3/1/2012 (9:00pm) -- (10:00pm)

Topics Cafe, 2122 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614

Free

A joint magazine poetry reading featuring 5 minute readings by: Aaron Belz, Todd Boss, Geoff Brock, Carolina Ebeid, Luke Johnson, Rebecca Lindenberg, Erika Meitner, Mary Quade, Natalie Shapero & Eric Smith.

Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts

Mapmaking “We have not solved the problem of love, / have we?” asks Ann Fisher-Wirth in her book-length poem, Carta Marina. Fisher-Wirth, a professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi, spent ten months as a Fulbright professor at Sweden’s Uppsala University where she became fascinated with the literal Carta Marina, a rare fifteenth-century map of Scandinavia housed in the university library, which became the framework for her Carta Marina, a map of the ties that hold people together ... [ read more ]