Join us for a reading and conversation with poets Jalen Eutsey and Dora Malech.
Jalen Eutsey is a writer from Miami, Florida. A recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, his poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Hopkins Review. His chapbook Bubble Gum Stadium was published by Button Poetry.
Dora Malech’s fourth book of poetry, Flourish, was published in 2020, and her fifth book of poetry, Trying × Trying, is forthcoming in fall 2025. Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker and Best American Poetry. She is editor in chief of The Hopkins Review and a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
This event will take place at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on 400 Cathedral Street in Baltimore, Maryland, and will be streamed on the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Facebook page and YouTube page.
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