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
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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💥 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
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
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💥 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
💥 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
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
@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
🚨 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
