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poet / professor @ JHU Writing Seminars / editor of The Hopkins Review / Baltimore, MD
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Dora Malech
Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences
5 months ago
“Trying x Trying” fits right into this moment. In her
@baltfishbowl.bsky.social
interview, professor
@doramalech.bsky.social
talks about language, grief, motherhood, and writing through these trying times.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/what...
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Q&A With Poet and JHU Prof Dora Malech
The poem's in JHU professor and Hopkins Review editor Dora Malech’s "Trying x Trying" find joy through a playful use of language and gravitas through a direct and keenly observed rendering of our worl...
https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/what-it-is-to-be-alive-in-this-world-qa-with-poet-and-jhu-prof-dora-malech/
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Dora Malech
Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences
3 months ago
Professors Janice Chen and
@doramalech.bsky.social
Malech launched a fiction contest to study how shifting emotions in a story shape memory and activate the brain.
magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/11/your...
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Your Brain on Fiction - Arts & Sciences Magazine
The winning writers received a framed poster created by doctoral student Samira Tavassoli. (Photography by Will Kirk) What steps do you take to figure out
https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/11/your-brain-on-fiction/
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Dora Malech
Jay Boss Rubin
3 months ago
"Without Sun," which takes place in the year 3045, first appeared in the gorgeous, Summer 2025 print issue of
@hopkinsreview.bsky.social
. Special thanks to Editor-in-Chief
@doramalech.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/967646
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Project MUSE - Without Sun
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/967646
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TRYING X TRYING is on Poetry Northwest’s list of PoNW’s Favorites | Autumn 2025!! In great company. 💖💖💖 Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest. ✨ ✨ ✨
www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...
Pub date approaching; book shipping now.
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https://www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favorites-autumn-2025/
5 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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!
9 months ago
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cool thread from
@jmja.bsky.social
re:
@metmuseum.org
@edwardenninful.bsky.social
#charliecaselyhayford
@menswear.bsky.social
#metgala
#menswear
#historicalfashion
#edwardenninful
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10 months ago
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Dora Malech
Hopkins Press
10 months ago
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!
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@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...
🫧🍬 🩷 🏟️ ⚾️ 📕
10 months ago
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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
10 months ago
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Monday, May 5 at Manor Mill!
10 months ago
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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.
10 months ago
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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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Dora Malech
Casey Plett
10 months ago
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)
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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
about 1 year ago
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Dora Malech
The Hopkins Review
about 1 year ago
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
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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...
https://userjourney.show/
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Dora Malech
The Hopkins Review
about 1 year ago
Pre-order volume 18 now:
hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volum...
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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’...
https://hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volume-18-john-waters
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Dora Malech
The Hopkins Review
about 1 year ago
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...
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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 ...
https://hopkinsreview.com/press/volume-18-featured-cover-artist
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Dora Malech
Burgi Zenhaeusern
about 1 year ago
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
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Dora Malech
John James
over 1 year ago
New poem in
@hopkinsreview.bsky.social
with thanks to
@doramalech.bsky.social
!! I’ll post it’s brother this afternoon.
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Dora Malech
John James
over 1 year ago
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
! (Click image for alt-text.)
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Dora Malech
Steven Leyva
about 1 year ago
Every Poem is an Advent — day 7 poem by
@doramalech.bsky.social
from her book FLOURISH
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