Smartish Pace is a non-profit, independent literary journal based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
The magazine was founded in 1999 by Stephen Reichert[1][2][3] who was a University of Maryland School of Law student at the time.
[4] Smartish Pace has published poems by the following Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award winners: Carl Phillips, Martín Espada, Terrance Hayes, Rae Armantrout, Mark Doty, Natasha Trethewey, Philip Schultz, Claudia Emerson, Nathaniel Mackey, Ted Kooser, Paul Muldoon, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Mary Oliver, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Stern, Maxine Kumin, and Anthony Hecht.
The magazine has also debuted previously unpublished letters of Elizabeth Bishop and award-winning new translations of Tomas Tranströmer.
[5] When referencing places Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson had published, Newsweek called the journal "obscure".