Issue 15 includes:
Carl Dennis, Lynnell Edwards, B.H. Fairchild, Leah Goldberg, Brooks Haxton, Bob Hicok, David Kirby, David Lehman, Gail Mazur, Campbell McGrath, Gregory Orr, Lia Purpura, Reginald Shepherd, Elizabeth Spires, Diane Wakoski and much more.





Gregory Orr & Clarinda Harriss
Smartish Pace Reading Series

Friday, June 13, 2008
6:30 PM
The Walters Art Museum

Smartish Pace Reading Series
Speckled Bird Cafe (Cincinnati, OH)
June 5th, 8:00 p.m.
Readers: Nathan Schwartzendruber, Dick Hague, and Robert Murphy

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Listen to Smartish Pace Editor Stephen Reichert and Baltimore poet Elizabeth Spires interviewed by Tom Hall of WYPR (Baltimore's Public Radio)

Smartish Pace poetry prizes
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2007 Erskine J. Poetry Prize Winners Announced

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Smartish Pace MEDIA, an audio collection of poems that have appeared in Smartish Pace

New Reviews:

Boy Drinkers (Terence Winch)
reviewed by Anna Ziegler


Hockey Haiku: the Essential Collection. Chad Davidson and John Poch eds.

(Read Davidson and Poch's response following the review)

Imaginarium (Lynn Levin)
reviewed by Maggie Paul


When a Woman Loves a Man
(David Lehman)

reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey


Hapax (A.E. Stallings)
reviewed by Clare Banks


Recent Interviews:
Denise Duhamel
Shara McCallum

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Read answers from:
Bob Hicok
David Wojahn
Jorie Graham
Robert Hass
Robert Creeley
Campbell McGrath
Carl Dennis
Eavan Boland
Stephen Dunn
Robert Pinsky