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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · 25d

TRYING X TRYING is on Poetry Northwest’s list of PoNW’s Favorites | Autumn 2025!! In great company.

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Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.

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www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...

Pub date approaching; book shipping now.

www.poetrynw.org

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Aug 18

Working on some other readings; love reading with other people and linking up with existing reading series. Love class visits, virtual or in person. Let me know if you want to put something together!

Let me know if you’re considering fall or spring course adoption; happy to answer any questions.

Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reading at the Pratt w/ Jeannie Vanasco on Saturday, Oct 11 at 3 pm; Bird in Hand w/ Elise Levine on Oct 16 at 6 pm; for the JHU Writing Sems on Nov. 5 at 6 pm; and for AGHI’s Humanities in the Village on Jan 26 at 6:30 pm.

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Aug 18

Advance Review Copies of TRYING X TRYING are here! Carnegie Mellon University Press did a beautiful job, with front cover art by Melissa Newman and a generous back cover blurb by Erika Meitner.

Book out October 7; pre-orders matter; 🙏

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Jun 4

Really happy to see @publisherswkly.bsky.social
shine a light on Trying x Trying, forthcoming in October:

www.publishersweekly.com/9780887487118

If you'd like a review copy, or are up for course adoption, a class visit, or a reading, get in touch!

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · May 7

cool thread from @jmja.bsky.social
re: @metmuseum.org @edwardenninful.bsky.social #charliecaselyhayford
@menswear.bsky.social #metgala #menswear #historicalfashion #edwardenninful

Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · May 6

I’m not someone whose work often (or ever) has direct cultural relevance, but today it does, so here’s my first go at a thread. Have any of you been ogling Edward Enninful’s ensemble from the Met Gala last night? Its Regency elegance, and perfectly articulated details? (M notch, cravat, pleats?)

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · May 6

Congratulations to @HopkinsReview & designer Sevy Perez on being selected for the 2025 @AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, the annual show celebrating excellence in academic publication design

View the announcement and all this year's awardees!

design.up.hcommons.o...

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · May 7

it’s in book coming out in the fall; i can DM :)

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · May 4

@jaleneutsey.bsky.social’s @buttonpoetry.bsky.social
launch yesterday at the Pratt Library was wonderful! thanks to all who came out in person, or tuned in online.

pick up a copy of BUBBLE GUM STADIUM:

buttonpoetry.com/product/bubb...

🫧🍬 🩷 🏟️ ⚾️ 📕

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · May 4

hope the Baker Awards show went great!

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · May 3

Come launch @jaleneutsey.bsky.social’s
debut poetry chapbook Bubblegum Stadium with me TODAY at 3 pm at the Pratt Library!! It’s a homecoming for him here in Baltimore, and you don’t want to miss hearing him read these poems!

@buttonpoetry.bsky.social
@hopkinsreview.bsky.social

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · May 1

Monday, May 5 at Manor Mill!

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Apr 28

Iowa City friends, I hope you can make it to @stevenleyva.bsky.social’s reading at @prairielights.com on Tuesday!

He’s a must-read, must-hear poet, coming to you from Baltimore.

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Apr 25

Pre-orders really help shape the future of a book, so please pre-order and share:

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Trying x Trying

Poetry that wrestles with language, loss, and resilience in times of crisis. In Trying × Trying, Dora Malech dissects the language of our times; she turns over the familiar phrases of politics, parent...

press.uchicago.edu

Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Apr 25

Cover reveal! So thrilled to feature Melissa Newman’s art on the cover of my next book of poetry, TRYING TIMES TRYING, forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press this fall. (Melissa’s piece is called “Hysterical.”)

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · Apr 24

I've got a new short story in the next issue of the Hopkins Review 👇 (thank you so much @doramalech.bsky.social & @hopkinsreview.bsky.social for wanting to publish it)

The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social · Apr 24

Subscribe today and receive Issue 18.2, featuring Casey Plett's fiction and more!

hopkinsreview.com

@caseyplett.com

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Jan 1

Jan. 1, 2025: first day as full professor.

Huge thanks to colleagues, friends, and family for their support, camaraderie, advice, and levity.

Photo credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University

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The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hear John in conversation with THR's editor in chief Dora Malech and design director Sevy Perez on the season finale of Perez's podcast User Journey w/Sevy:

userjourney.show

User Journey w/ Sevy

User Journey w/ Sevy, presented by the Society of Typographic Arts, is a podcast about how the journeys of designers influence the work they make today. Join host Sevy Perez as he interviews the creat...

userjourney.show

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The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social · Dec 17

Pre-order volume 18 now:
hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volum...

Volume 18: John Waters — The Hopkins Review

What’s in Volume 18 of The Hopkins Review ? Volume 18 will feature THR’ s signature blend of literature, culture, criticism, public-facing scholarship, and the arts across the year’...

hopkinsreview.com

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The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social · Dec 17

Welcoming JOHN WATERS as The Hopkins Review's next featured cover artist!

Read about Waters and our Featured Cover Artist initiative:
hopkinsreview.com/press/volume...

Announcing Volume 18 Featured Cover Artist: John Waters — The Hopkins Review

We’re thrilled to announce writer, director, artist, and Baltimore icon John Waters as The Hopkins Review’s fourth annual Featured Cover Artist. His indelibly irreverent images will appear on each of ...

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Dec 17

At long last delving into this here treasure 😍
The American Sonnet, an anthology of poems and essays (U Iowa Press, 2022)
edited by @doramalech.bsky.social & Laura T. Smith

#bookSky 📚💙

Cover features many-colored, horizontal stripes on dark grey ground running down its entirety. Title and editors superimposed in white lettering. The book rests on greyish patterned fabric surface (of a sofa).

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · Dec 17

Thank you for reading! I hope you find as much to enjoy reading as we did editing.

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John James @ecotopian.bsky.social · Nov 21

New poem in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social with thanks to @doramalech.bsky.social!! I’ll post it’s brother this afternoon.

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John James @ecotopian.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here's the companion poem to "Action in the Infinitive," which I posted earlier today. This one is called "Infinite Gyre of Possible Ends" and also appeared in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, with thanks again to @doramalech.bsky.social!

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to swaddle the rifle, to wipe clean its lip / to sponge dried milk from an infant’s cheek / to dribble the oil, to torch it completely / to scrape the whole whale from the beach / to stack gold plates, illustrate utopia / to soak the sun’s light from the pitch of the roof / to pace time, its sugared circularity / to unfold its mountainous chain / to husk corn, shuck calcium from mollusks / to shear the lichen-eaten willow oak / to garble the language, gum the words / to tattoo the script on a canvas of palm / to cradle the cycle, censure the system / to scoop, from the floor, a loose silverfish / to swirl the garbage, to compost the knife / to temper the rage in the hurricane’s eye / to filter the fire, to breed the abyss / to pluck bottle caps from ribcages of birds

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · Dec 7

Every Poem is an Advent — day 7

poem by @doramalech.bsky.social from her book FLOURISH

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