Smartish Pace

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.

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.

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.