The University of Baltimore's M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts will
host
and evening with poets Steven Leyva, associate professor in UBalt's Klein Family School of Communications Design, and
Dora Malech, professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and editor
in chief of The Hopkins Review, on Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m. in the Wright Theater located on the fifth floor
of The University of Baltimore Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free
and open to the public.
Leyva, a native of New Orleans and a graduate of UBalt's M.F.A. in Creative Writing
and Publishing Arts program, is a nationally acclaimed writer whose poems have appeared
in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and The Understudy's Handbook, which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House.
His second book of poems, The Opposite of Cruelty, will be released by Blair Publishing this spring.
Malech's most recent books of poetry include Flourish and Stet. Her fifth book of poetry, Trying ×Trying, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press this fall. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. With Laura T. Smith, she edited The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, and, with Gabriella Fee, she translated Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto's Dolore Minimo, which won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize. Malech has received an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, among other honors.
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