Dora
Malech is the guest. Her most recent poetry
collection,
Stet, is available from Princeton University
Press.
Malech's other collections include
Say So (Cleveland State
University Poetry Center, 2011), and
Shore Ordered Ocean
(Waywiser Press, 2009). Her fourth collection,
Flourish,
will be published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in
2020.
Malech has been the recipient of an Amy Clampitt Residency Award
from the Amy Clampitt Fund, a Mary Sawyers Baker Prize from the
Baker Artist Awards, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry
Foundation, and a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella
Ranieri Foundation, and she has served as Distinguished
Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary's College of California. She is a
co-founder and former director of the arts engagement organization
the Iowa Youth Writing Projects, and she is currently an assistant
professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
In today's monologue, I basically get right to the
interview.