American literary journal
Smartish Pace is a non-profit , independent literary journal based in Baltimore, Maryland , USA . The magazine was founded in 1999 by Stephen Reichert[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] who was a University of Maryland School of Law student at the time. The name, Smartish Pace , originates from a tort case in which a horse carriage, which was travelling at "a smartish pace," ran over and killed a donkey.[ 4] Smartish Pace has published poems by the following Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award winners: Carl Phillips , Martín Espada , Terrance Hayes , Rae Armantrout , Mark Doty , Natasha Trethewey , Philip Schultz , Claudia Emerson , Nathaniel Mackey , Ted Kooser , Paul Muldoon , Yusef Komunyakaa , Carl Dennis , Stephen Dunn , Mary Oliver , Andrew Hudgins , Henry Taylor , Gerald Stern , Maxine Kumin , and Anthony Hecht . The magazine has also debuted previously unpublished letters of Elizabeth Bishop and award-winning new translations of Tomas Tranströmer .[ 5] When referencing places Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson had published, Newsweek called the journal "obscure".[ 6] As of Clifford Garstang's 2023 Literary Magazine Rankings, Smartish Pace was ranked one of the top ten poetry magazines in North America.[ 7]
Smartish Pace ’s website is the home of Poets Q & A, the first interactive poetry forum on the internet, where readers ask questions of well-known poets.[ 8] Past poets who have participated in Poets Q & A include Carl Phillips , Sherman Alexie , Jorie Graham , Robert Creeley , Eavan Boland , Mark Doty , Robert Hass , Rae Armantrout , Carl Dennis , Stephen Dunn , Bob Hicok , Campbell McGrath , Robert Pinsky , Elizabeth Spires , and David Wojahn .
Smartish Pace was named "Best Poetry Journal" in 2007 by the Baltimore City Paper .[ 9]
Editor: Stephen Reichert
Senior Editor: Daniel Todd
Associate Editors: Clare Banks, William Camponovo, Dan Cryer, Traci O'Dea, Freeman Rogers
Assistant Editors: Samuel Cheney, Meg Eden, Jared Fischer, Kari Hawkey, Jocelyn Heath, Kristin Lindholm, Austin Tremblay, Clifford Williams
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Notes and references
^ Permutt, Sam (April 2004). "Pace setter" . Baltimore Magazine .
^ "Lines Online: Poetry Journals on the Web" . The Chronicle of Higher Education . November 7, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2010 .[dead link ]
^ "Poetry's Dead at Last But . . " . Trinity Magazine . Winter 2000. Retrieved December 10, 2010 . (authored by member of journal's staff, published in an alumni magazine)
^ Miceli, Thomas (Fall 2009). "Davies v. Mann from Chapter 2" . The Economic Approach to Law, 2nd ed . Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
^ "Poets Index" Smartish Pace Website, Retrieved December 10, 2010.
^ Gates, David (June 12, 2006). "Heroine by a Hairbreadth" . Newsweek .
^ Garstang, Clifford (December 22, 2022). "2023 Literary Magazine Ranking–Poetry" . cliffordgarstang.com . Archived from the original on May 31, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023 .
^ Larimer, Kevin (May–June 2003). "Literary MagNet" . Poets & Writers . Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
^ "Baltimore Living: Best Poetry Journal" . Baltimore City Paper . September 19, 2007. Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
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