NEW: Michael Collier PQA--read his insightful answers! Sherman Alexie has not replied to the questions, we're sorry and thank you for your patience.

Poet(s) currently taking questions: Carol Muske-Dukes

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David Franks Dies

David Franks, poet, artist, songwriter and prankster, died on Jan. 14 in his Baltimore apartment at the age of 61. The list of David Franks stories is long: he wrote Congressional speeches in the mid-1970s, conducted a musical composition ... [ read more ]

2009 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize Results

6th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace; Clare Banks & Traci O’Dea, Judges

1st Prize: “Remember” by Miriam Bird Greenberg
2nd Prize: “When My Back Gave Out” ... [ read more ]

David Keplinger, Smartish Pace Reading

David Keplinger reading for Smartish Pace & Barrelhouse at Artomatic in Washington, DC on June 12, 2009. Intro by Dan Brady of Barrelhouse.

Interview with Denise Duhamel

CHIMERA: an interview with Denise Duhamel by Karla Huston (Note: this interview was conducted via email between January and May 2004.) Denise Duhamel’s poetry has been described as stunning, suggestive, and startling. Rain Taxi says, "Duhamel’s careful yet freewheeling musings employ a seamlessly shifting digital palette of techniques, devices, and tones, all in the service of a poet able to maintain distance yet remain engaged and human. She is much like this last-call century of ours, searching for the point from which to take a running leap to a new kind of poetry.” Her poems speak with a wild irreverence. Not afraid of critics and naysayers, Duhamel experiments with form and subject, creating poetry that challenges the reader’s notion of what poetry should be. She presents what poetry could be as she fully engages pop culture, the joys and horrors of it, while maintaining the ability to poke fun at our foibles—and make us think. Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Mille et Un Sentiments, a limited edition chapbook (Firewheel Editions), were both published in 2005. ... [ read more ]

AWP Bookfair & SP Party

4/7/2010 (7:00am) -- 4/10/2010 (5:00pm)

Denver, CO, Hyatt Regency, Bookfair Location: E5

Book Fair Free on Saturday; Party=FREE

Meet the SP staff! We love love love meeting our readers & poets & friendly strangers, & we'll have the usual FREE Smartish Pace AWP Issues, drinks, merriment, pirates & rides for the kids at bookfair location E5. And, if you ask us, we'll give you the location of our super secret Atlanta-Chicago-Baltimore style Smartish Pace party to be held Friday night in Denver.

http://www.awpwriter.org/

David Gewanter Poetry Reading

9/5/2010 (3:00pm) -- (5:00pm)

The Walters Art Museum

Free

This event date & time have not been finalized. The reading will happen on a Sunday in September & we will post confirmation here in the spring of 2010.

David Gewanter is the author of three books of poetry: In the Belly (1997), The Sleep of Reason (2003) and War Bird (2009), all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (FSG, 2003). His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 9. He is a professor at Georgetown University.

Boy Drinkers

It is no mistake that Terence Winch's latest collection, Boy Drinkers, begins with a poem entitled "Comfort." These lovely, human poems represent a search for just that, in a world that offers little in the way of genuine security. Set up as a catalogue of Winch's teachers (Fathers, Mothers and Brothers, all, for Boy Drinkers is also a unique window into a Catholic boyhood), the collection-and each individual poem-builds with the hope that someone will ... [ read more ]