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New Year's Day Poetry Marathon!!

1/1/2010 from NOON to FIVE
Creative Alliance at The Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224

30 poets & 6 musical acts! Smartish Pace editors Clare Banks & Stephen Reichert will host one hour, from 2 pm to 3 pm, featuring Smartish Pace poets Charlie Clark, Ellen Kirvin Dudis, Haines Eason, Elizabeth Brooke Hazen & Anne-Marie Thompson, & music from Mr. Moccasin. The entire event is from Noon to 6 pm, well attended each year, in a mega cool art space & a super duper way to start the new year!

FREE but there will be a cash bar and a brunch you can put your money towards.
http://www.creativealliance.org/ for the deets.

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“Founded in 1998, Smartish Pace, a Baltimore literary magazine, has published an impressive roster of poets.” —Poets & Writers Magazine

“Beyond merely smartish, the smartest thing to come out of Baltimore’s rich literary life in some time is Smartish Pace.” —RADAR Magazine

"Best Poetry Journal, 2007"—Baltimore City Paper

“Smartish Pace is distinguished not only by its presentation of new poems in a non-distracting format that honors each poem, but by its continual combination of work by America’s leading poets with work by poets soon likely to join their ranks.” —Dick Allen

“There is a classy dignity in the look and style of Smartish Pace.” —Mark Halliday

“The much admired, relatively new poetry journal Smartish Pace [www.smartishpace.com]… is home to ‘Poets Q & A,’ the first of its kind on the Internet.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education

“I admire the catholicism (with a small c) of Smartish Pace. Can't remember a magazine previously willing to print Clayton Eshleman, Diane Wakoski, and me too. A handsome magazine that knows what it's doing.” — X. J. Kennedy

“This is a fine place in which to find one’s own work amidst work by favorite contemporaries.” —Henry Taylor

“A handsome journal!” —Stephen Dunn

“The magazine has become a welcome home to some of this generation’s most prestigious poets…in fact, Stephen Reichert’s modest tome has managed to publish new works from the last three Pulitzer Prize winners in poetry….” —Baltimore Magazine

“Obscure” —Newsweek

“Devoted entirely to poetry, Smartish Pace is a physically beautiful specimen…and bravo, too, to Smartish Pace for giving us so many intelligent and finely wrought poems. May they keep up the pace for many more years.” —NewPages.com

“I enjoyed every moment I spent at smartishpace.com, and I didn’t miss a single page. The poetry is exceptional and the reviews interesting. Plan on visiting the site and make sure you bring your coffee, a snack, and have lots of time to visit every section. It is definitely worth the read.” —InkThoughts.com

“How fast exactly is a Smartish Pace? If momentum means anything to this devourable, young magazine, Baltimore had better build another lane among its literary innerbelts.” —Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Smartish Pace has a good blend of known poets with lesser known, but deserving up-and-comers. A very smart journal." —Charles Harper Webb

"Smartish Pace provides an important new voice in contemporary poetry, not only because it seems already to have established a tradition of editorial discrimination, but also because it's fashioned a presence on the Internet that's judicious, sober-minded, and discriminating. It's not a bells-and-whistles site; it does in fact show precisely the kind of innovation, taste, and literary flare that I find in the pages of the journal itself. The website and the journal support each other, and it's this kind of support that I find most helpful and most rewarding. And I further believe that this kind of enterprise, this kind of co-operation between the page and site, provide the surest glimpse of what lies ahead. Smartish Pace, in many ways, has already shown us the future of journal dissemination in our hard-wired culture." —Sidney Burris

"Smartish Pace manages to remain open to all the tributaries streaming into the American poetry tradition.” —Tyrone Williams

“I very much enjoyed Issue 6 of Smartish Pace, which had work by some poets I’ve long admired…also, the overall publication—even to the feel of the paper—was attractive.” —Rachel Hadas

“Without exception, Smartish Pace is my favorite poetry magazine.” —Edmund August

“Smartish Pace is wonderful, filled with music and wisdom.” —David Citino

“I’m always impressed with the quality of the poems, especially given the range of styles and schools represented.” —Norman Finkelstien

“Smartish Pace is one of the most visually attractive, intelligently edited journals I’ve seen, much less been included in.” —Michael Hettich

"The ol' Pace keeps clipping along at a goodish whatever, and I, for one, am glad to hear it; my copy's right here on my desk, and I think it meets all the Keatsian requirements as both a thing of beauty and joy forever." — David Kirby

"What we like about regularly visiting www.smartishpace.com over the past 12 months was gaining some better appreciation of contemporary poetry--from reading the insightful reviews and the poems published therein--while appreciating the overall tone and tenor of the journal, which doesn't make us feel stupid for not already being up on our contemporary poets. Intelligent, informative, and user-friendly--who knew poetry could be so engaging?" —Baltimore City Paper

“Smartish Pace is looking good!” —Marilyn Nelson

“Smartish Pace is gorgeous! A veritable moveable feast!” —Maurya Simon

“It’s a pleasure to participate in the intelligent liveliness of Smartish Pace.” –Henry Taylor

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