The Signal 4-22-11 - Baker Artist Awards, Smartish Pace, Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher
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- Three local art-makers are each 25 thousand dollars richer, thanks to the 2011 Baker Artist Awards, and we catch up with the newly announced winners – vocal percussionist Shodekeh, experimental musician Audrey Chen, and visual artist Gary Kachadourian.
- The Baltimore-based poetry journal, Smartish Pace, has an uncanny knack for publishing Pulitzer-Prize winning poets, and we talk with Editor Stephen Reichert about how he manages to calculate poetic genius.
- Plus: A late great Maryland statesman is remembered lovingly by the political cartoonist who made him look as silly as possible – Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher takes the stage at the Stoop storytelling series to talk about his roller coaster relationship with William Donald Schaefer.




