Media | Smartish Pace (a poetry review)

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Joseph J. Capista, Smartish Pace Reading

Joseph J. Capista reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 19 Party at the Copy Cat building in Baltimore on April 13, 2013. Music, in the video and live at the party, by The Great American Canyon Band. Intro by Stephen Reichert.

Biography of Joseph J. Capista

Joseph J. Capista's poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, North American Review and Slate. He teaches writing at Towson University. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace Issue 19. [2012]

Amy Woolard, Smartish Pace Reading

Amy Woolard reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 19 Party at the Copy Cat building in Baltimore on April 13, 2013. Music, in the video and live at the party, by The Great American Canyon Band. Intro by Stephen Reichert.

Biography of Amy Woolard

Amy Woolard is a senior policy attorney with Voices for Virginia’s Children, a public policy and advocacy organization focused on children and poverty. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Puerto del Sol and Phoebe. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poem "A Girl Gets Sick of a Rose" won Third Place in the 2011 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize.

Patricia Davis, Smartish Pace Reading

Patricia Davis reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 19 Party at the Copy Cat building in Baltimore on April 13, 2013. Music, in the video and live at the party, by The Great American Canyon Band. Intro by Stephen Reichert.

Biography of Patricia Davis

Patricia Davis' poetry and translations have been published in New Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol and Salt Hill; and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She co-authored an award-winning nonfiction book, The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Orbis, 2002), and her first play, Alternative Methods, was produced in New York and Washington, DC in 2010. She lives in Virginia with her husband and five-year-old daughter. [bio updated 2012]

Michael Collier, Smartish Pace Reading

Michael Collier reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 19 Party at the Copy Cat building in Baltimore on April 13, 2013. Music, in the video and live at the party, by The Great American Canyon Band. Intro by Stephen Reichert.

Biography of Michael Collier

Michael Collier's sixth collection, An Individual History, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2012. He has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001–2004, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland and is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. [bio updated 2012]

Deborah H. Doolittle

Deborah H. Doolittle reading for the Smartish Pace Issue 19 Party at the Copy Cat building in Baltimore on April 13, 2013. Music, in the video and live at the party, by The Great American Canyon Band. Intro by Stephen Reichert.

Biography of Deborah H. Doolittle

Deborah H. Doolittle teaches at Coastal Carolina Community College. Her chapbooks, No Crazy Notions (Longleaf, 2001) and That Echo (Longleaf, 2003), won the Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award and the Longleaf Press Award, respectively. Her poem "White Wash" was a finalist for the 2011 Buellah Rose Poetry Prize. She read for Smartish Pace at CAM Raleigh on November 16, 2012 and at Copy Cat in Baltimore on April 13, 2013 (see media section). [bio updated 2013]

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