Poetry Sunday With Jess Yuan: SLOW RENDER (With Dora Malech)

4/7/24 4pm - 5pm

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Poetry Sunday With Jess Yuan: SLOW RENDER (With Dora Malech)

Bird in Hand presents a Sunday afternoon of poetry, featuring Jess Yuan and her new collection, SLOW RENDER! Winner of the prestigious Airlie Prize, SLOW RENDER unfolds in three lyrical movements, weaving together journeys and landscapes, personal history and cityscapes.
Dora Malech, associate professor in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review, will join Jess Yuan in conversation.
Jess Yuan is a poet, educator, and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She is a Kundiman Fellow, and her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly Review, jubilat, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.
Dora Malech’s most recent book of poetry is Flourish, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which will publish her next book of poetry, Trying × Trying, in 2025. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry London, and The Best American Poetry, and her honors include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an associate professor in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review.

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Bird in Hand Coffee & Books
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