Smartish Pace


Smartish Pace is a non-profit, independent literary journal based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The magazine was founded in 1999 by Stephen Reichert 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. Smartish Pace has published poems by the following Pulitzer Prize winners: Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Emerson, Ted Kooser, Paul Muldoon, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Henry Taylor, Mary Oliver, Maxine Kumin, and Anthony Hecht. When referencing places Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson had published, Newsweek called the journal "obscure".
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. Past poets who have participated in Poets Q & A include Sherman Alexie, Rae Armantrout, Eavan Boland, Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, 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.

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