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Matt McBride & Amy Woolard Nominated for Best New Poets

Smartish Pace nominated Matt McBride's poem "Cities of Advertisers" and Amy Woolard's poem "A Girl Gets Sick of a Rose" for the 2013 Best New Poets anthology. SP is proud ... [ read more ]

Party & Reading Tonight! Saturday April 13th

Issue 19 Reading & Party (with The Great American Canyon Band!)

April 13th, 2013 (7:00pm) -- (11:00pm)

LOCATION: CopyCat Building, 1501 Guilford Ave Baltimore, MD 21202

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Austin Tremblay, Smartish Pace Reading

Austin Tremblay reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 18 party at Cyclops in Baltimore on May 6, 2011. Introduction by SP Intern Jessica Yoo.

Interview with Michael Chitwood

DMB: You have worked for a number of different publications, as a science writer and also as a commentator. Which of these was most fulfilling?  MC: I enjoyed my time at the various publications. Working for the University of Virginia Medical Center and Duke Medical Center introduced me to people and situations I would not otherwise have ever encountered. I’ve witnessed surgery to put skin grafts on burn victims and flew in a life-flight helicopter. I once stayed up 36 hours with a medical intern for a story. The radio commentaries gave me a wide audience.  After one of my commentaries aired, my doorbell rang and a neighbor on my doorstep said, “You just made me cry.” DMB: In 1986, you moved from Virginia to North Carolina. What were the factors that caused you to move? MC: The reason for the move was simple. I had just finished my MFA at UVa, and my wife wanted to get her MBA. She had chosen the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We came to Chapel Hill and fell in love with the place.          DMB: Did your 'poetic voice' change along with the move to NC? [ read more ]

Issue 20 Readings!

9/1/2013 (7:00pm) -- (8:00pm)

Baltimore, New York, Raleigh, Austin, Virgin Islands

We will have Smartish Pace Issue 20 readings in Baltimore (TBA), New York City (KGB Bar), Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum), Austin (TBA) and Virgin Islands (TBA). 

Dates to be announced here throughout the year. 

V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L'una

Stephanie Strickland's poetry collection, V, is a wild ride in a new direction. It explores woman's essence as she intersects with science, mathematics, and technology, and it does so in such a form as to challenge and explode patriarchal notions of her being and even of the language itself. V is really two books, WaveSon.nets and Losing L'una, which meet at the middle with a pointer to a website page that launches the reader into ... [ read more ]