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Wislawa Szmborska Dies at 88.

Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died of lung cancer on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland.

The next issue of Smartish Pace (#19, April, 2012) ... [ read more ]

Frank O'Hara & Jan Cremer in Baltimore

Load of Fun Gallery (LOF/g), in collaboration with the i.e. Reading Series, hosts a silkscreen print exhibition and poetry reading. The exhibition combines silkscreen printed poems of Baltimore native Frank O’Hara, silkscreen illustrations ... [ read more ]

Phillis Levin Smartish Pace Reading

Smartish Pace Reading Series at KGB Bar, New York City. October 4, 2008.

Interview with Aaron Poochigian

Traci O’Dea (Associate Editor, Smartish Pace): How has translating Sappho affected your own poetry?

Aaron Poochigian: I had always wanted each line of my poetry to be songlike and ravishing. Now, after having lived with Sappho for about two years, I have a better sense of what that means. But I should be more specific about her influence. Many of Sappho’s poems give the reader the impression that he or she is eavesdropping on a private conversation, as in the following fragment:As you are dear to me go find a youngerBed as your due.I can’t stand being the old one any longer,Living with you.I now readily slip into the conversational mode in my own work. Sappho, in fact, is credited with pioneering the “personal” in poetry, partly because she gives the reader this window into the intimate. She also makes frequent use of what I call “choral” expression—that is, the speaker as a first person plural “we” representing a group of people. I now often write poems in “group voices.” Perhaps the poem “The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis” is the best evidence of her influence on my work.     The Marriage ... [ 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: Todd Boss, Geoff Brock, Victoria Chang, Carolina Ebeid, Luke Johnson, Rebecca Lindenberg, Erika Meitner, Mary Quade, Natalie Shapero & Eric Smith.

The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins, a native of 19th Century Philadelphia and fairly true to his city (he studied abroad only briefly) is considered to be one of America's greatest painters. Because Eakins is known for his passion for technical exactness, it should not be surprising to find Philip Dacey using the same precision in this volume. From sonnets (some written as a sequence on one painting) to sestinas and poems built from rhyming couplets, the construction of ... [ read more ]