💥 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

Praise be the #poetry editors of these and other lit mags! 🖋️✏️For sustaining the soul 🪭🫶🏼 @fencebooks.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social @undpress.bsky.social @passagesnorth.bsky.social @senecareview.bsky.social @smartishpace.bsky.social @vallummag.bsky.social

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

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

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

🚨 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

🚨 Hey Baltimore! This Saturday, 9:30am-5pm, visit our table at @CityLitProject - we’ll 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

See you soon in LA! Table T540. 📚 #poetry #SmartishPace #Poets #poems #reading #poet #AmericanPoetry #UnitedStatesPoetry #creativewriting #book #verse #literature #art #ContemporaryPoetry #awp #AWP25 #SmartishPacePoets #losangeles #losangelespoetry @awpwriter

New poetry from Paul Muldoon in Smartish Pace! Paul is published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social Also AWP is next week, come to our off-site reading on Wednesday night! Open bar, free food, amazing poets, beautiful venue . . details in photos.

Come to our #AWP Off-Site Reading on Wed. March 26th! Great lineup in a uniquely beautiful venue. Open bar & free food and if/when our loot runs out, a cash bar. We did this last year in KC and it was super duper - see you soon! #AWPOffsite #AWP25 #poetry #smartishpace #countsden #LAPoetry

New poetry from @carolynroliver.bsky.social in Smartish Pace! See you all soon in LA at T540. Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine @acrebooks.bsky.social ; Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble @uofupress.bsky.social & (Seven Kitchens). She lives in Massachusetts.

Rick Bursky reading at @awpwriter.bsky.social - see you all soon in LA! // Rick Bursky is the author of I’m No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance (BOA); Death Obscura @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ; The Soup of Something Missing; and The Invention of Fiction. youtu.be/oucRoVpsdpQ

💡New poetry by @chotchandani.bsky.social in Smartish Pace!💡Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters, the 2023 @perugiapress.bsky.social winner & a debut book featured in @pw.org . She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English at the U. of Nebraska at Omaha.💡 #poetry #SmartishPace #Poets #Poet

We'll see you soon at #AWP25 in LA! We've been to every AWP since 2003 and it always feels new and exciting thanks to all the new poets and readers we meet each year. @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP #SmartishPace #poets #poetry #creativewriting #losangeles #poems #poet

John Kinsella is the author of40+ books of poetry including Spirals, Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023) (UWA, 2024) and Insomnia @wwnorton.bsky.social 2020. A new selected poems, The Darkest Pastoral, will appear with W.W. Norton in 2025, as well as Aphoria, from Turtle Point Press.

New poems by Beth Ann Fennelly in Smartish Pace! Beth is published by @wwnorton.bsky.social and others. www.smartishpace.com #poets #poetry #smartishpace #smartishpacepoets #poetrycommunity

@AllisonFieldBell.bsky.social is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at @utah.edu & she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University. She is the author of Without Woman or Body (@finishinglinepress.bsky.social 2025) and Edge of the Sea (Cut Bank, 2025). #poet #smartishpace #poetry

Sunday March 9, 2025 (4pm), The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with poets Hayes Davis & Chris Nealon! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 7th year, the series is sponsored by Smartish Pace (AWP table T540) & Baltimore Poets Theatre.

🔥 New poems from Tom Sleigh! Tom is published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🔥 Tom Sleigh is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The King’s Touch (Graywolf, 2022), winner of the 2023 Paterson Poetry Prize; House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf, 2018); & Station Zed (Graywolf, 2015).

Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife (Measure, 2024) and Dirge for an Imaginary World (Able Muse, 2012). He is Associate Editor of Literary Matters and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. ⚫️ #poetry #SmartishPace #poet #StephenReichert #AWP25 #SmartishPacePoet #MatthewBuckleySmith

Katia D Ulysse reading her poem from Smartish Pace at @awpwriter.bsky.social - Katia is published by @akashicbooks.bsky.social - we'll see you soon at AWP in LA, at table T540. Stop by and chat with us! #SmartishPace #SmartishPacePoet #KatiaDUlysse #poet #AWP25 youtu.be/SKNiGYFjkuM

Donna Spruijt-Metz reading for us at AWP. We'll see you soon in LA, we'll be at T540, our 23rd year of attending AWP! @dsmpoet.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social #smartishpace #poet #AWP #AWP25 #poets #poems #poetry #SmartishPacePoets #creativewriting youtu.be/InrinuRZLbs

Brian Barker is the author of The Black Ocean (SIU 2011), winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition, and The Animal Gospels @tupelopress.bsky.social 2006. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver where he is a Poetry Editor for Copper Nickel. #smartishpace #brianbarker

Todd Boss reading his poem from Smartish Pace at @awpwriter.bsky.social in KC. Todd's four books of poetry are published by @wwnorton.bsky.social #AWP #AWP25 #SmartishPace #poet #ToddBoss #poetry #poems #creativewriting #SmartishPacePoet #Norton #AWP24 youtu.be/V7viZNyOEzo

Emily Schulten is the author of 3 books, most recently Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia (White Pine). She is the Poet Laureate of the City of Key West & professor at The College of the Florida Keys. @emilyschulten.bsky.social #poetry #emilyschulten #smartishpace

Louise Ling Edwards reading her poem from Smartish Pace at #AWP. We look forward to seeing you all soon in LA for @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP24 #AWP25 #smartishpace #smartishpacepoet #LouiseLingEdwards #poet #poetry #poetryreading youtu.be/whYUJTXlfWw?... via @YouTube youtu.be/whYUJTXlfWw

Josiah Cox is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and The Writing Seminars at @jhu.edu His poetry appears in Bad Lilies; Commonweal; Literary Matters; and @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social , as the Poem of the Month. #poet #smartishpace #poetry #josiahcox @hopkinsreview.bsky.social #baltimorepoetry #poets

Harryette Mullen’s books include Recyclopedia (PEN Aw) & Sleeping with the Dictionary (Nat. Book Aw finalist, Nat. Book Critics Circle Aw & LA Times Book Prize). Her new book, Regaining Unconsciousness, is out later this year. Publishers: @graywolfpress.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social and others.

@jockeycornsilk.bsky.social reading his poem from #SmartishPace Issue 31, at #AWP in KC. Lloyd Wallace is an Assistant Editor of @poetrydaily.bsky.social & his writing appears in @greensbororeview.bsky.social @theiowareview.bsky.social @theiowareview.bsky.social & others. youtu.be/EpGLr4_uDn4?...

Amy M. Alvarez is the author Makeshift Altar - @kentuckypress 2024 - and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology - @wvupress.bsky.social 2023. 🔴 #poetry #SmartishPace #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #creativewriting #verse #AWP25 #PoetryMagazine #PoetryReview #PoetryJournal

Kim Addonizio reading for Smartish Pace at AWP 2024; her poetry appears in SP #30. Kim's recent books are Now We’re Getting Somewhere & Exit Opera / @wwnorton.bsky.social ** We're hosting a reading at AWP in LA on 3/26/25 - details soon! ** #SmartishPace #KimAddonizio #poet youtu.be/8WxQoxHz5V8?...

A.M. JUSTER has published eleven books, including The Secret Language of Women (Richard Wilbur Award). He has two forthcoming including a translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere from @wwnorton.bsky.social - a @harvardlawschool.bsky.social grad, he worked in senior positions for 4 US Presidents. 🇺🇸

@awrightawright.bsky.social reading at AWP! See you soon in LA. youtu.be/LgPEBS6PUKs?... #poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #poems #reading #poet #creativewriting #StephenReichert #art #ContemporaryPoetry #AWP #AWP24 #AWP25 #SmartishPacePoets #AmyWright #ClareBanks