About the Book
New poems by: Sean Cho Ayres, John Wall Barger, Katie Berta, Colin Cheney, Peter Cooley, Corinne Dekkers, Michael Dhyne, Chelsea Dingman, Merridawn Duckler, Martín Espada, Richard Georges, Jason Gordon, Samantha Grenrock, Barbara Hamby, K.A. Hays, Alison Hicks, Bob Hicok, Jeff Hoffman, Anna Maria Hong, Frieda Hughes, Ishion Hutchinson, Jennifer Keith, Siham Kirami, James Henry Knippen, William Logan, Victoria McArtor, Owen McLeod, Wayne Miller, Carolyn Oliver, Duncan Primeaux, Barbara Ras, John Reed, Austen Leah Rose, Nicholas Samaras, Meg Shevenock, Maurya Simon, Dean Smith, J.C. Talamantez, Michael Torres, Ben Tufnell, Gabby Vachon, Loren Walker, Lesley Wheeler, Leslie Williams, Steven Winn, Annie Woodford. Cover art by Molly Sullivan.
About the Author :
Stephen Reichert is the editor and an artist with work is in private, corporate, and public collections. Recent exhibitions include Hancock Solar Gallery; Gardiner Gallery of Art (Oklahoma State University); Tectonic Space; University of Maryland; Ellington-White Contemporary; Sotheby's Roland Park Gallery; Waterloo Arts Gallery; Area 405; Rosenberg Gallery (Goucher College); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Baltimore City Hall; Fort Worth Community Arts Center; Artdromeda; and MAP (Maryland Art Place). His work was recently featured in a course at Loyola College. He has degrees from Trinity College and the University of Maryland, and has studied painting, aesthetics, and other artistic disciplines. He is the founder and editor of the poetry magazine Smartish Pace, plays in the band Heavy Letdown, is an owner of Baseball Prospectus, and lives in Baltimore.
Review :
"Founded in 1998, Smartish Pace, a Baltimore literary magazine, has published an impressive roster of poets." -Poets & Writers Magazine
"Stephen Reichert is the editor of the much admired, relatively new poetry journal Smartish Pace. The website (www.smartishpace.com) does supplement its hard-copy issues...the site is also home to 'Poets Q & A, ' the first of its kind on the Internet." -The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The magazine has become a welcome home to some of this generation's most prestigious poets...in fact, Reichert's modest tome has managed to publish new works from the last three Pulitzer Prize winners in poetry...." -Baltimore Magazine
"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
"Beyond merely Smartish, the smartest thing to come out of Baltimore's rich literary life in some time is Smartish Pace." -RADAR magazine
"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