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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 8d

💥 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!

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Sep 13

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!

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · May 27

Praise be the #poetry editors of these and other lit mags!
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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Jun 8

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.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 13

Your gave a beautiful reading! Thank you. ♥️

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 9

💥 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

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 6

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.

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John Kinsella reading "Europa"

YouTube video by SmartishPace

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 5

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

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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.

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Chris Nealon Poetry Reading

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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Three Poems by Ian Cappelli - Terrain.org

Ian Cappelli's three contest finalist poems, all titled "[Incomplete Prose Poem]," are strange, quirky, and altogether delightful.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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Ian Cappelli — The Westchester Review

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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Clarifying the Inner Chorus

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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Ian Cappelli

Ian Cappelli's work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in <i>Best New Poets</i> (2023), <i>Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Image Journal, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, Blackbird,…

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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Everybody Tells You That It's Going to Be Okay by Ian Cappelli - The Los Angeles Review

but you remember middle school, that time you told your buddy the same thing. You’d spent the day trading cards. He’d lost one of yours

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

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About | Ian Cappelli

Ian Cappelli is a poet specializing in the prose poem and the fragment.

www.iancappelli.com

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · May 4

@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.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Apr 29

@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.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Apr 12

Tomorrow! Sunday April 13th at 4pm, poets @brandelfrance.bsky.social & @christianteresi.bsky.social 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

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Apr 9

Opening Saturday night! 5pm - 10pm at The Fox Building. An art exhibition featuring Mark Cameron, Kristin Fuller, & Stephen Reichert (Smartish Pace). Details: Mark, Kristin & Steph

#bmoreart #art #artexhibition #contemporaryart #bmoreartists #MarkCameron #KristinFuller #StephenReichert #lookbusy

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Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · Apr 5

🚨 Hey Baltimore! Saturday, 9:30am-5pm, visit our table at @CityLitProject - wl 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

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