Joy Jacobson reading for Smartish Pace Issue 18 party on 12-17-11 at KGB Bar in New York City. Intro by Smartish Pace Editor Stephen Reichert.
Biography of Joy Jacobson
Joy Jacobson’s chapbook, I And (New School, 2004), won the Chapbook Series Award in poetry at The New School, where she earned an MFA. She has had residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Vermont Studio Center. The poems in this issue are a part of an elegiac sequence entitled “Where She Is Gone To.” [bio updated 2011]
Matthew Rohrer reads at the Smartish Pace Issue 18 party at KGB Bar in New York City on December 17, 2011. Intro by SP Editor Stephen Reichert.
Biography of Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer is the author of eight books, including A Hummock in the Malookas (W.W. Norton, 1995), Nice Hat. Thanks. (with Joshua Beckman; Wave, 2002) and A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling, 2009). He has received the Hopwood Award for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, was selected as a National Poetry Series Winner and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Recently, he participated in residencies and performances at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle). He lives in Brooklyn, New York. [bio updated 2011]
Rachel Bennett reads at the Smartish Pace Issue 18 party at KGB Bar in New York City on December 17, 2011. Intro by SP Associate Editor Clare Banks.
Biography of Rachel Bennett
Rachel Bennett has a BA in English from Grinnell College, where she won two Whitcomb Poetry Prizes judged by Gerald Stern and James Galvin, and she is an alumna of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Irish Writing Program in Dublin. Her poetry has appeared in Avocet, Big City Lit, Blood Lotus, Buffalo Carp, Rhapsoidia and The Portland Review . She lives in Brooklyn, New York. [bio updated 2011]
Joseph O. Legaspi reads at the Smartish Pace Issue 18 party at KGB Bar in New York City on December 17, 2011
Biography of Joseph O. Legaspi
Joseph O. Legaspi’s debut collection, Imago (CavanKerry), was published in 2007. He holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University and the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, he is one of the co-founders of Kundiman, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving Asian American poets. Born in Manila, Philippines, he now lives in New York City. [bio updated 2011]
VIDEO
"Publishing and Technology: The Evolution of a 21st Century Poetry Magazine" by Smartish Pace Editor Stephen Reichert @ Western Illinois University, November 10, 2011
