Smartish Pace
Poetry magazine that publishes poems & translations, & hosts The HOT L Poets Series; est. 1998 by editor Stephen Reichert. Baltimore, MD. Smartishpace.com
- Amy Lerman reading for Smartish Pace at the @awpwriter.org. Say hi to Smartish Pace this year in Bmore at booth 844. Also come to our events on Wed, Fri & Sat nights! #poetry #SmartishPace #Poets #poems #reading #poet #stephenreichertart #creativewriting #AWP #AWP26 youtu.be/3z0UBAuM8jU?...
- Rebecca Morgan Frank reading at AWP for Smartish Pace. Join us this year in our hometown of Baltimore, we'll be at booth 844 and we look forward to meeting you! We also have amazing off-site readings on Wednesday & Friday nights. #AWP #AWP26 #SmartishPace #Poetry youtu.be/pIPOZ-yMULc
- Jeffrey Harrison poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings are on the 2nd Sunday of the month in Bmore. #SmartishPace #HOTL #Poetry #POEMS @fourwaybooks.bsky.social youtu.be/tuvRChY85Ns?...
- Bernard Welt [@bernardwelt.bsky.social] poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings are on the 2nd Sunday of the month in Baltimore. #SmartishPace #HOTL #Poetry #POEMS youtu.be/mJES84gfO_Y?...
- Bruce Snider poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by @smartishpace.bsky.social & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings on the 2nd Sunday of the month in Baltimore. #SmartishPace #HOTL #Poetry #POEMS #BruceSnider youtu.be/fkSwjSFOoYQ?...
- Nicholas Montemarano poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings on the 2nd Sunday of the month in Baltimore. youtu.be/S0Oh9-3v_As?...
- Greg McBride poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings are on the 2nd Sunday of the month in BAL. #SmartishPace #HOTL #Poetry #poems youtu.be/YHuzsfAXwdo?... via @YouTube
- Chris Mason poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings are held on the 2nd Sunday of the month in BAL. #SmartishPace #HOTL #TheHOTL #HOTL #Poetry #poems #creativewriting youtu.be/M1Udd4Pb5RE
- Henry Israeli poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is the work of Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings are every 2nd Sunday of the month in BAL. @saturnaliabooks.bsky.social @hisraeli.bsky.social #SmartishPace #HOTL youtu.be/1Gqvvi1jtGs?...
- Hailey Leithauser poetry reading celebrating The Best American Poetry 2025. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. Readings are held on the 2nd Sunday of the month in Baltimore. #SmartishPace #HOTLPoetsSeries #poet #HOTL #poems youtu.be/gRX3T7SsDCM?...
- Patricia Davis-Muffett poetry reading in the HOT L Poets Series, a celebration of The Best American Poetry anthology! @triciadm.bsky.social is the author of Alchemy of Yeast and Tears (Kelsay, 2023). #poetry #poet #SmartishPace #creativewriting #HOTL #HOTLPoetsSeries youtu.be/JsYxMwGB9S8?...
- Donald Berger reading in The HOT L Poets Series, which was a celebration of The Best American Poetry, 2025 anthology. Donald Berger is the author of six books of poetry including The Rose of Maine (SurVision). #SmartishPace #Poetry #HOTLPoetsSeries #Poet #DonaldBerger youtu.be/1z-7lD5tCtM?...
- Terence Winch poetry reading, January 11, 2026; introduction by Stephen Reichert. The reading celebrated The Best American Poetry 2025 anthology. The HOT L Poets Series is presented by Smartish Pace. Readings are held on the 2nd Sunday of the month in Baltimore. youtu.be/bTUU3X1_8Ng?...
- Sunday 1/11, a celebration of the latest (and final) edition of THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025 with featured poets and guest editor Terence Winch! 4pm at Bird in Hand. You don’t want to miss this one!
- Thank you @mariannelchan.bsky.social, Leslie Harrison, @michaelmontlack.bsky.social, @christophernelson.bsky.social, Gregory Orr, and Amy Raasch for sending great poems to Smartish Pace! #SmartishPace #pushcart #poetry #creativewriting #poet #poetrycommunity #poets #SmartishPacePoets #poetrylovers
- 💥 Sunday Dec. 14th 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with @iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social & includes the best open mic in town so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #creativewriting #openmic #SmartishPace #poets #poet #poems #books
- Rick Hilles reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us tomorrow December 14th (4pm) with poets @iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social at Bird in Hand (Bmore)! #poetry #smartishpace #poetrycommunity #poet #creativewriting youtu.be/fx4OSgKPn8g?...
- Samyak Shertok reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us tomorrow December 14th (4pm) with poets @iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social at Bird in Hand (Bmore)! #poetry #smartishpace #poetrycommunity #poet #creativewriting youtu.be/DHF1c6r9irI?...
- Here are the winners of the 24th annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize! Thank you and congratulations to Michael Montlack, Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Aris Keshav, Rebecca Boyle, Julie Hanson, Michele Lent Hirsch, Matt Hohner, Zebulon Huset, Ibe Liebenberg, Marc Nasdor, and Burnside Soleil.
- We are pleased to annouce the winners and finalists of our 21st annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize! All poems appear in Smartish Pace. Cheers! Judges: Clare Banks & Traci O'Dea
- Erin Barach, Donald Berger, Sophia, and Camilo Montoya reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us for our next reading on December 14th with poets Michael B. Tager and Burgi Zenhaeusern ( @burgi.bsky.social )at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)! youtu.be/sM1I4FPaFtw
- Reposted by Smartish PaceMy debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃 Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social! Link to order and more info in 🧵 DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙 Watch this space for events/news 😊
- Poets G. H. Mosson, Jordan Keeney & Lisa Green Cudek reading in open mic at The HOT L Poet Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us for our next reading on December 14th with poets Michael B. Tager and Burgi Zenhaeusern ( @burgi.bsky.social ) at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)! youtu.be/fELX7yDvXtA?...
- 💥 Today at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok! 💥 The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetryreading #birdinhand #SmartishPace #HOTL #Bmoreart #BaltimoreArt #Baltimore
- Clare Banks poetry reading for the release of her new book NOTES ON ENDINGS on September 27, 2025 at The Iy Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland. youtu.be/PNmApjqx7Vw?...
- Lindsay Bernal's poetry reading recently at The Ivy Bookshop! Nice shirt. : ) youtu.be/T9mpHCRfgdU
- Poet Jennifer Keith read for us on Oct. 12th at The Ivy Bookshop - thanks to everyone who attended, that was a great crowd! We'll see you again on Sunday Nov. 9, 2025 at 4pm at Bird in Hand with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok! #poets #smartishpace #poetryreading #HOTL youtu.be/kr54Km_z1WI?...
- Poet A.M. Juster read for us on Oct. 12th at The Ivy Bookshop - thanks to everyone who attended, that was a great crowd! We'll see you again on Sunday Nov. 9, 2025 at 4pm at Bird in Hand with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok! #poets #poems youtu.be/UIdnmHkgMqk?... via @YouTube
- 💥 Sunday October 12th, 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop with poets A.M. Juster & Jennifer Keith! 💥 The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetryreading #IvyBookshop #SmartishPace #Poets #HOTL #Bmoreart #SmartishPacePoets
- Many of you know Clare Banks from her role hosting The HOT L Poets Series & editing Smartish Pace, today she reads from her debut poetry collection, Notes on Endings, with poet Lindsay Bernal. Ivy Bookshop, 4pm.
- Sunday! 4pm at the Baltimore Book Festival poets Eileen G’Sell & @haydensaunier.bsky.social read along with a few suprise poets. Stage located at 400 E 31st St, Baltimore, MD 21218 - we hope to see you there! Thanks to The Ivy Bookshop for sponsoring us!
- Forrest Gander is the author of 13 collections including Mojave Ghost (New Directions, 2024); Be With (New Directions, 2018), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and Core Samples from the World (New Directions, 2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award. #poetry
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- Today! June 8, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop with poets Reginald Harris & G. H. Mosson! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 7th year, the reading series is sponsored by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre.
- 💥 This Sunday! May 11th at 4pm the HOT L Poets Series features poets @hollykarapetkova.bsky.social & @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop on the covered patio! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem to read! #poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #HOTL #openmic #poet
- Here's part of Christopher Childers poem "Miasma" that appeared in Smartish Pace having won our Erskine J. Poetry Prize. The poem was later selected for the current volume of The Best American Poetry. #poetry #SmartishPace #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #AmericanPoet
- John Kinsella is the author of 40+ poetry books including Spirals (2014-2023) (UWA, 2024) & Insomnia (@wwnorton.com 2020). A new selected poems, The Darkest Pastoral, will appear with W.W. Norton early in 2025, as well as Aphoria, a collection of poems from Turtle Point Press. youtu.be/LjYwj8znyjM
- Bruce Snider is the author of Blood Harmony (@uwiscpress.bsky.social 2025); Fruit (UofWI, 2020); Paradise, Indiana (@pleiadesmag.bsky.social / @lsupress.bsky.social 2012) & The Year We Studied Women (UofWI, 2003). He lives in Baltimore & teaches in the Writing Seminars at @jhu.edu. #SmartishPace
- Chris Nealon reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Mar. 9th. Our next reading is on Sun. May 11, 2025 (4pm) at the Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore) with poets @hollykarapetkova.bsky.social & @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social! Readings sponsored by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre. youtu.be/sB4qE0jIDR4?...
- @iancappelli.bsky.social's writings appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Blackbird, @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, @theiowareview.bsky.social, The Journal and @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social. He is a creative writing (poetry) PhD student at the @uofdenver.bsky.social.
- @arpagain.bsky.social is the author of a book of poems, How to Remember The World (Foothills, 2018), and two chapbooks of poetry, Song of Days, Torn and Mended (Alice Blue, 2015) and Bread and Water Body (Merriam Frontier Prize, 2003). She lives and works in Missoula, MT. #SmartishPace #Poetry
- Adam Grabowski is author of the chapbook Go On Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020). He is currently the associate poetry editor for The Maine Review and a special education teacher in the Springfield, MA Public Schools system. #poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #creativewriting #AWP
- Kimberly Esslinger in Smartish Pace! Kimberly Esslinger’s poetry has been nominated for a #pushcartprize and Best of the Net & appears in @calyxpress.bsky.social @chironreview.bsky.social Nerve Cowboy & Spillway. She holds an MFA in poetry from CSU Long Beach. #smartishpace #smartishpacepoets
