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    Poetry News:

  • Shara McCallum's book, Madwoman, Longlisted for 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (March 19th, 2018)
  • Smartish Pace 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations (December 1st, 2017)
  • Poet John Ashbery dies age 90 (September 4th, 2017)
  • Best New Poet Nominations: Hunt & Macormic (March 15th, 2017)
  • Writer’s Residency: Day Use (near Baltimore) (February 20th, 2017)
  • SP Poet Jacob Polley wins T.S. Eliot Prize (January 21st, 2017)
  • 16th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize (January 18th, 2017)
  • 13th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize (January 16th, 2017)
  • Smartish Pace 2016 The Pushcart Prize Nominations (December 1st, 2016)
  • SP Poet Aliki Branstone named MO Poet Laureate (July 2nd, 2016)
 

Issue 25

 
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Poetry News
 

Poet Carson Cistulli Talkin' Baseball

May 27th, 2016

Smartish Pace poet Carson Cistulli is all things to all people. If all the things people care about are poetry and baseball, that is. Listen here to Carson on the Baseball Prospetus Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild. Carson's poems appear in SP Issue 20.

Poet Matthew Zapruder Named the New Poetry Column Editor for The New York Times Magazine.

March 3rd, 2016

Poet Matthew Zapruder has been appointed the new poetry column editor for The New York Times Magazine. Born in Washington, D.C., he lives in Oakland, where he is the director of the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program in Creative Writing, as well as editor at large for Wave Books. He is the author of several books of poetry, including his fourth collection Sun Bear (2014) and Come On All You Ghosts (2010).

Poet C. D. Wright Dies at 67

January 13th, 2016

C. D. Wright, American award-winning poet and writing professor at Brown University, unexpectedly passed away in her home on January 12, 2016. Her most recent book, Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire and All, was published in November 2015. 

Amit Majmudar appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Ohio

December 28th, 2015

Amit Majmudar was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Ohio. His work has appeared in many literary magazines including Smartish Pace, and few of his published poems are "By Accident," published in Counter Balance, "Reading," "The Miscarriage," "Instructions to an Artisan," and so on. 

Smartish Pace 2015 "The Pushcart Prize" Nominations

December 2nd, 2015

We are pleased to nominate the following poets & poems for The Pushcart Prize:

Aaron Belz: “Advice to Children”
Joshua Bennett: “Fresh”
David Kirby: “A World in Which These Things Happen”
Dawn Manning: “Fables from the Petrified Forest”
Lisa Summe: “Morning After We Hook Up”
Diane Wakoski: “Elegy for My Next Door Neighbor”

2015 National Book Awards finalists in Poetry

November 17th, 2015

The five finalists for the 2015 National Book Awards in Poetry are listed below:


-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)
-Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin/Penguin Random House)
-Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)
-Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)
-Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)


 The winner of the $10,000 prize will be announced in New York on November 18.

Poet Joy Harjo wins Wallace Stevens award from the Academy of American Poets

September 14th, 2015

Poet Joy Harjo of Muskogee Creek heritage has won Wallace Stevens award from the Academy of American Poets, found in 1934. Her works include How We Became Human and The Woman Who Fell from the Sky. 


The Academy has also awarded Kevin Young's Book of Hours Lenore Marshall poetry prize and a felloship to poet Marie Howe. 

2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Winners Announced

September 7th, 2015

The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announces the five recipients of the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, one of the largest awards given to young poets between 21 and 31 years of age in the United States: Nate Marshall, Erika L. Sánches, Danniel Schoonebeek, Safiya Sinclair, and Jamila Woods. 

Poet James Tate Dies at 71

July 9th, 2015

James Tate, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and long time University of Massachusetts professor, died at 71. He wrote over twenty poetry collections, including The Ghost Soldiers and The Oblivion Ha-Ha.


You can read his bio here:  
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-tate


 

Poet James Fenton wins Pen Pinter Prize

June 16th, 2015

British poet and journalist James Fenton has won the Pen Pinter Prize, established in honour of playwright Harold Pinter.


Previous winners of the Pinter Prize include Tom Stoppard, Carol Ann Duffy, Hanif Kureishi and last year's winner, Salman Rushdie.


You can check out his website: http://www.jamesfenton.com/

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