🚨 Hey Baltimore! Saturday, 9:30am-5pm, visit our table at CityLit Project - we have free issues of Smartish Pace, fancy t-shirts & our unwavering good cheer! The event is held at Lord Baltimore Hotel 📷 #citylit #smartishpace #baltimore #bmorepoetry #baltimorepoetry

Opening Saturday night! 5pm - 10pm at The Fox Building. An art exhibition featuring Mark Cameron, Kristin Fuller, and Stephen Reichert (Smartish Pace) #bmoreart #art #artexhibition #contemporaryart #bmoreartists #MarkCameron #KristinFuller #StephenReichert

Tomorrow! Sunday April 13th at 4pm, poets Brandel France de Bravo & Christian Teresi read for us at The Ivy Bookshop! Includes an open mic so bring a poem to read. #SmartishPace #PoetryReading #HOTL #BmoreEvents #HOTLPoetsSeries #Poets #Poetry #BaltimoreEvents #poem #poems #poetrylovers

Adam Grabowski reading at AWP. Adam Grabowski is author of Go On Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press 2020). He is the associate poetry editor for TheMaineReview - #poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #creativewriting #AWP youtu.be/Y_lDjROeNn0?fe… via YouTube

Poet Amy Ratto Parks 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

Chris Nealon reading in The HOT L Poets Series on March 9, 2025. Now in our 7th year, the reading series is sponsored by Smartish Pace and Baltimore Poets Theatre. Hosts: Clare Banks, David Yezzi, Stephen Reichert, Traci O'Dea and Dan Todd. youtu.be/sB4qE0jIDR4?fe… via YouTube

Bruce Snider is the author of Blood Harmony (U of Wisconsin Press 2025); Fruit (UofWI, 2020); Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades /LSU Press 2012) & The Year We Studied Women (UofWI, 2003). Bruce Snider lives in Baltimore & teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. #SmartishPace

John Kinsella is the author of 40+ poetry books including Spirals (2014-2023) (UWA, 2024) & Insomnia W. W. Norton & Company 2020). A new selected poems, The Darkest Pastoral, appears from W.W. Norton this year, as well as Aphoria, from Turtle Point Press. youtu.be/LjYwj8znyjM?fe… via YouTube

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

💥 This Sunday! May 11th at 4pm the HOT L Poets Series features poets Holly Karapetkova & Lesley Wheeler 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

Today! June 8, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop with poets Reggie & 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.

Forrest Gander is the author of 13 collections including Mojave Ghost (New Directions 2024); Be With (New Directions, 2018), winner of the The Pulitzer Prizes; and Core Samples from the World (New Directions, 2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer & National Book Critics Circle Award.

#Pompeii Was Reinhabited After Deadly #Vesuvius Eruption, New Evidence Reveals: greekreporter.com/2025/08/08/pom… via @greekreporter My meditation about repopulation of the area is in the latest issue Smartish Pace - find us on Bluesky (@smartishpace) (not online, but I'll be reading it for them in Baltimore on October 12).