Friday 3/6 (7pm), at this historic church, 5 minutes from AWP. Free event, wine & beer. Featuring Clare Banks, Jan Beatty, Armen Davoudian, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Campbell McGrath, Bradley Paul, Alexis Sears, Dean Smith, Chris Watkins & David Yezzi. #AWP #AWP26 #SmartishPace
Tonight at this historic former church w/ 32 Poems, Barrelhouse & Smartish Pace, 5 min from AWP. Free beer & poetry. Part of the fun of this event is seeing inside an iconic long-shuttered 19th-c. church, but the venue is not ADA accessible & has quirky bathrooms. #awp26 #AWP
Tonight! Start AWP at this historic former church with 32 Poems, Barrelhouse & Smartish Pace 5 min from AWP. Free: beer & poetry. Part of the fun of this event is seeing inside an iconic long-shuttered 19th-century church, but it means the venue is not ADA accessible and has quirky bathrooms. #AWP26
Tonight! Start AWP at this historic former church with 32 Poems, Barrelhouse & Smartish Pace 5 min from AWP. Free: beer & poetry. Part of the fun of this event is seeing inside an iconic long-shuttered 19th-century church, but it means the venue is not ADA accessible and has quirky bathrooms. #AWP26
Tonight! Start AWP at this historic former church with 32 Poems, Barrelhouse & Smartish Pace 5 min from AWP. Free: beer & poetry. Part of the fun of this event is seeing inside an iconic long-shuttered 19th-century church, but it means the venue is not ADA accessible and has quirky bathrooms.
Today at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series presents Rebecca Aronson & @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social at Bird in Hand & the reading includes the best open mic in town! You'll have time to watch the sports ball game.
#poetry #smartishpace #poetrycommunity #poets #poems
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
See Rebecca Aronson read on Sunday (2/8/26) at 4pm with @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social at Bird in Hand (Bmore) & includes an open mic. You'll have plenty of time to watch the sports bowl later.
#SmartishPace #HOTL #Poetry #Poet
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See Wayne Miller read on Sunday (2/8/26) at 4pm with Rebecca Aronson at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)! Reading includes an open mic. You'll have plenty of time to watch the sports bowl later. Here is Wayne reading his poem in Smartish Pace.
@waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
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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
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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
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My goodness, this poem is perfect. This is the poem poets should send to Smartish Pace. 💯
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
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@bernardwelt.bsky.social
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
