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Charles Wright, New US Poet Laureate

Charles Wright will be the next Poet Laureate, kicking off his tenure with a Sept. 25 reading of his work.

Wright has 24 poetry collections and two books of ... [ read more ]

Smartish Pace 2013 Pushcart Prize Nominations

From Smartish Pace, Issue 20
 
Carson Cistulli: “Young People Will Have White Hair”
Leah Falk: “Westview Cemetery”
Andrea Henchey: “The Moon Is So Smart”
Timothy Liu: “The Garden of ... [ read more ]

Stephen Reichert Lecture on Publishing Poetry

"Publishing and Technology: The Evolution of a 21st Century Poetry Magazine" by Smartish Pace Editor Stephen Reichert @ Western Illinois University, November 10, 2011

Interview with Carol Frost

Carol Frost is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Pure, Venus and Don Juan, Love & Scorn, I Will Say Beauty, and most recently The Queen’s Desertion (all from TriQuarterly Books). She is a four-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize and has been nominated for that award a remarkable 20 times. She founded the Catskill Poetry Workshop in 1988 and was its director until 2008. In addition, she served as one of two poetry editors for the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII, has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and is presently the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Chair in English at Rollins College, Florida. Her poetry, prose, and essays have appeared in literally hundreds of publications, including The American Poetry Review, AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Smartish Pace (issue 16).A. K. Huseby:  “All Summer Long” (Love and Scorn) is a transportive piece that describes a “lonely, happy child / … who hates silences.” You also speak of a woman with dementia in “Apiary VIII” existing in “her shell of silence” (Poetry 10/07). Then again, there seems to be something shameful in stillness and “dumb imaginings” in the solitude of “Country ... [ read more ]

Ballistics: Poems

The dirty little secret about Billy Collins' poetry is it is hilarious.  I have always found his poetry amusing, but in person, the poet adds fuel to the flame.  If you read Collins' book, Ballistics, this way, you will see what I mean.  If one must contemplate ". . .love, death, solitude, youth, and aging" (as the blurb on the dust jacket of this edition states) there are not many ways more pleasurable to do ... [ read more ]