Smartish Pace

Smartish Pace is a non-profit poetry magazine in Baltimore founded in 1998 by Stephen Reichert.

05/11/2026

Amy Raasch reading on March 4, 2026 at the Mt. Vernon Place Church in Baltimore, MD; introduction by poet Steven Leyva. The reading was hosted by Smartish Pace, 32 Poems Magazine & Barrelhouse for AWP. Thanks to Peabody Heights Brewery, LLC
for their beer sponsorship & The Ivy Bookshop for selling the poets books. Part of the fun of the event was seeing inside an iconic historic space in Baltimore, a long-shuttered 19th-century church.

Amy Raasch is a Los Angeles-based artist whose projects include the album Girls Get Cold, animated film Cat Bird Coyote, and theatrical show The Animal Monologues. Her poems have appeared in Smartish Pace.

05/10/2026

💥 TODAY May 10th (4pm) at with poets & Dorian Elizabeth Knapp outside on the covered patio! The reading includes the best open mic in town so bring one poem (3 minutes max) to read. The poets books are published by 💥

05/05/2026

Poet Steven Leyva reading at the Mt. Vernon Place Church in Baltimore presented by Smartish Pace, 32 Poems Magazine & Barrelhouse for Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Intro by Justin Marks. Part of the fun of this event was seeing inside an iconic historic space in Baltimore, a long-shuttered 19th-century church. Thanks to Peabody Heights Brewery, LLC for their beer sponsorship & The Ivy Bookshop for their book selling.

Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Understudy’s Handbook (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2020) and The Opposite of Cruelty (Blair, 2025). His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace.

05/04/2026

Michael Robins has new poetry in Issue 32! You can get a copy a smartishpace.com or at Bmore bookstores.

MICHAEL ROBINS is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Bright Invisible (Saturnalia Books, 2022). He lives in Lake Charles, LA, where he teaches in the MFA program at McNeese State University and is the editor of McNeese Review.

Cover Art: Jackie Milad
Editor: Stephen Reichert

05/02/2026

Poet Justin Marks reading at the Mt. Vernon Place Church (Baltimore) presented by Barrelhouse Smartish Pace & 32 Poems Magazine for Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Intro by poet Marianne Chan. Part of the fun of the event was seeing inside an iconic historic space in Baltimore, a long-shuttered 19th-century church. Thanks to Peabody Heights Brewery, LLC for their beer sponsorship & The Ivy Bookshop for hosting & selling the books.

Justin Marks is the author, most recently, of If This Should Reach You in Time (Barrelhouse Books). He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their twin son and daughter.

05/01/2026

💥 Sunday May 10th (Mother’s Day) 4 pm at with poets & Dorian Elizabeth Knapp outside on the covered patio! The reading includes the best open mic in town so bring one poem (3 minutes max) to read. The poets books are published by 💥

04/29/2026

Marianne Chan reading on March 4, 2026 at the Mt. Vernon Place Church in Baltimore, MD. The reading was hosted by Smartish Pace, 32 Poems Magazine & Barrelhouse for Association of Writers & Writing Programs in Baltimore. Thanks to Peabody Heights Brewery, LLC for their generous beer sponsorship. Part of the fun of the event was seeing inside an iconic historic space in Baltimore, a long-shuttered 19th-century church.

Marianne Chan is the author of Leaving Biddle City (Sarabande, 2024) and All Heathens (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University and has new poems in Smartish Pace, Issue 32.

04/28/2026

Poet Reginald Harris has new poetry in issue 32! You can get a copy at smartishpace.com.

REGINALD HARRIS is the author of Autogeography (Nupress 2013), winner of the 2012 Cave Canem/Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and 10 Tongues (Three Conditions, 2002), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He was born in Annapolis, MD, raised in Baltimore, MD, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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