Dora Malech is the author of Flourish (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and Shore Ordered Ocean (The Waywiser Press, 2009). Eris Press (Urtext Ltd) published Soundings, a selection of poems from Malech's first three books and a selection of her visual artwork, in 2019. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and Best American Poetry, and a chapbook of her work titled Time Trying was recently included in the anthology Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic (Tupelo Press, 2020). She 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 been the Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary's College of California and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome through its Visiting Artists and Scholars Program. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an Assistant Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Other poems by Dora Malech in Verse Daily:
December 01, 2018:   "Something Wonderful Is About to Happen to You" "Say Fortune's a poem without blood? Nope. Hung it...."
January 26, 2011:   "Flight, Fight Or" "Every rearview a lovescape of ex-towns...."
August 5, 2010:   "The End" "Then they faced each other..."
March 10, 2010:   "Let Me Explain" "Spring, and the tulips urged me..."
November 2, 2009:   "City Beach" "Your mouth said so long from so long said high..."
June 7, 2008:   "Oh Grow Up" "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
March 22, 2005:  "Small Ending" ""Each bird a yard bird..."

Books by Dora Malech:

Other poems on the web by Dora Malech:
Eigth poems
Three poems
"The Aquarium"
"Euscorpius italicus"

Dora Malech's Website.

Dora Malech According to Wikipedia.

Dora Malech on Twitter.

About Flourish:

"What a brilliant book. Page after page one finds lines one wants to write down. Here is poetry that is unafraid to see us clearly. In this time of injustice, what can one poet do? How can that one 'pair of wings on fire' lift us out of our predicament? Open this book to find out. Find that there is, after all, what this poet calls this 'pesky tenderness.' Open this book and see for yourself how 'gratitude that one expends expands.' This is real poetry, friends."
—Ilya Kaminsky

"Malech wields an elegant knife. A reader wowed by her brilliant imagery might overlook the terror in a line like, 'Though his eyes are open, the dead man is not all that moved by the stars.' These poems examine the violence about us. Malech's landscapes are full of 'bloody lullabies,' 'sweet asylum,' 'lexical kaleidoscopes,' and sentences 'bursting at as if all else / were seams, field sown to open, / reveling in its unraveling.' Flourish is dazzling."
—Terrance Hayes

"Announcing what's most at stake in its own title, Flourish is about the ardent encounters that irradiate a life into meaning. In poems about the textures of the world, the currents of thought and feeling within the self, and the intricate amplitude of language itself."
—Rick Barot