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Poetry

Memory of the Future book cover
Poetry
Literary excision
Published Fall 2018
In her seventh collection of poems, alum Elizabeth Spires uses words with sparing potency / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Dora Malech
Q+A
Talking with Dora Malech
Published Fall 2018
Poet Dora Malech on experimenting with form and language, working with young writers, and how language shapes what we know and how we feel / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Memory of the Future book cover
Q+A
Speaking with Elizabeth Spires
Published Sept 4, 2018
In advance of her talk at the Ivy Bookshop this week, Spires discusses her newest poetry collection
Tracy Smith stands at a podium and speaks
Turnbull Lecture
On the power and mystique of metaphor
Published Oct 25, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. Poet laureate, visits Johns Hopkins
Authors include: (top row, from left) Salman Rushdie, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion; (center row, from left) Tracy K. Smith, Teju Cole, Alice McDermott; (bottom row, from left) Katharine Noel, and Yiyun Li
President's Reading Series
8 notable authors to visit Homewood
Published Sept 12, 2017
Program begins Sept. 26 with reading from novelist Salman Rushdie
Molly Peacock
Poetry
Ambiguous loss
Published Summer 2017
Poet Molly Peacock processes a friend's massive stroke through her latest collection, 'The Analyst' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Poetry
Ode to a muse
Published June 2, 2017
Student leaves behind poem for 'Woman with Sunglasses on Bench' sculpture at MSE Library
Katherine Robinson stands on top of a green mountain in Wales
Student recognition
Alum named Gates Cambridge Scholar
Published Feb 28, 2017
Writer Katherine Robinson will study connections between 20th century poet Ted Hughes and medieval Celtic folklore
Photo of Quraysh Ali Lansana
Q+A
Hip-hop and poetry
Published Feb 5, 2016
Quraysh Ali Lansana, co-editor of 'The BreakBeat Poets,' visits JHU for free reading Monday
FACULTY
A British poet in Baltimore
Published Jan 11, 2016
Sir Andrew Motion settles into life in America as a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins