"Decadence"
by Nicole Pekarske
Smartish Pace
Issue 13

Nicole Pekarske:

Nicole Pekarske is the author of Intermissa, Venus (Cherry Grove, 2004). She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

About Smartish Pace:

"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

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