Carol Muske-Dukes is Poet Laureate of California. Viking will publish her eighth book of poems, Twin Cities, in 2011. Sparrow (Random House, 2003) was a National Book Award finalist. Channeling Mark Twain (Random House, 2008) is the most recent of her four novels. Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood (essays, Random House, 2002) and Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography and the Shape of the Self (reviews & essays, Michigan, 1997) were both New York Times Most Notable Books. Her recently completed Poets Q&A appears at www.smartishpace.com.
"Founded in 1998, Smartish Pace, a Baltimore literary magazine that appears in April and October, has published an impressive roster of poets in its first five years."
—Poets & Writers Magazine
"Stephen Reichert is the editor of the much admired, relatively new poetry journal Smartish Pace. The website 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
Issue 17
