Clare Banks: Book Launch for NOTES ON ENDINGS (with Lindsay Bernal)

Schedule

Sat Sep 27 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Ivy Bookshop - Back Patio | Baltimore, MD

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Clare Banks of Smartish Pace Magazine launches her debut poetry collection with a conversation with Lindsay Bernal at the Ivy!
About this Event

Many of you may know Clare Banks from her role with Smartish Pace Magazine, which hosts the beloved Hot L Poets Series at The Ivy and Bird in Hand. Now, we are thrilled to be celebrating the launch of Clare's debut poetry collection, NOTES ON ENDINGS, with a conversation with author Lindsay Bernal!

In the words of Mary Jo Salter, "This is a beautiful book, both as a series of individual poems and as a single artistic whole—an elegy for someone who died too young, the poet’s sister. A keenly observed natural world, including the remembered pathways of childhood and youth, keeps the frank sadness of these poems from despair. Notes on Endings is more than notes—Clare Banks shapes every poem by playing upon a few well-chosen images."

We are so glad this book will be in the world, and hope you will join us to welcome it with full festivities!

Order NOTES ON ENDINGS here

Clare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace. A recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, her poems have been featured in the The Best American Poetry blog, and in such journals as B O D Y, The Louisville Review, Mississippi Review, and Poet Lore. She was nominated for the Best New Poets 2023 anthology by Mississippi Review, was a 2023 finalist in Radar Poetry‘s Coniston Prize and a 2024 finalist in Iron Horse Literary Review‘s National Poetry Month Prize. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City where she co-hosts The HOT L Poets Series. Notes on Endings is her début full-length collection.

Lindsay Bernal is the author of What It Doesn't Have to Do With (University of Georgia Press, 2018), winner of the National Poetry Series. Poems from her second manuscript appear or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, the Georgia Review, the Hopkins Review, New England Review, Oversound, and other journals. She coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, where she also co-directs the Writers Here & Now reading series and teaches undergraduate poetry workshops and courses on poetics.


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