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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 ]

David Lehman Smartish Pace Reading

David Lehman, Smartish Pace Reading Series, Introduction by Assistant Editor John Martin, KGB Bar, New York, NY, October 4, 2008.

Interview with Harvey Shapiro

Harvey Shapiro's newest collection of poems, How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems, will appear in 2001. Born in Chicago in 1924, educated at Yale and Columbia, an Air Force gunner during World War II, Shapiro settled in New York and worked as a journalist, serving for eight years as the editor of the New York Times Book Review and eventually becoming a senior editor of the New York Times Magazine. In his Introduction to Shapiro's Selected Poems (1997), James Atlas, his colleague at the Magazine, observes the "rare unity" in Shapiro's life and work: "He has lived in the same place, Brooklyn Heights, for nearly his entire writing life; he has immersed himself in the rituals of his own neighborhood with an almost religious intensity." Mentored by the Objectivists but belonging to no one school, Shapiro is often regarded as a quintessential New York poet, tough but compassionate, jazzy and modernistic, but almost classical in his humane skepticism. His lyrics have the sound of chastened conversation-and his conversation produces a kind of punchy lyricism that is, for his interlocutor, both chastening and immensely pleasurable. This interview took place on March 17, 2000, at the home of Galen Williams ... [ 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 Darkness and the Light

Anthony Hecht's seventh collection, The Darkness and the Light, is a mesmerization by poetic prism. The light flashes, then goes dark, and we are under his spell. From love under a Florentine sunset to staring down the barrel of a NAZI rifle, there seems to be no subject on which Hecht cannot speak with passion and compassion.There is much about seeing in here. As with the title, the eyes in this collection both ... [ read more ]