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Dora Malech
@doramalech.bsky.social
poet / professor @ JHU Writing Seminars / editor of The Hopkins Review / Baltimore, MD
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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Pub date approaching; book shipping now.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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; 🙏

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August 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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!
June 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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?)
May 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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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May 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@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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May 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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
May 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Monday, May 5 at Manor Mill!
May 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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.
April 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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.”)
April 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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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)
Subscribe today and receive Issue 18.2, featuring Casey Plett's fiction and more!

hopkinsreview.com

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April 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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
January 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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:

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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...
userjourney.show
December 17, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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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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December 17, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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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 📚💙
December 17, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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New poem in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social with thanks to @doramalech.bsky.social!! I’ll post it’s brother this afternoon.
November 21, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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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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November 21, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Every Poem is an Advent — day 7

poem by @doramalech.bsky.social from her book FLOURISH
December 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM