Elizabeth Hazen with Courtney LeBLanc & Mary Jo Salter: THE SKY WILL HOLD

We could not be more excited to launch Elizabeth Hazen's new poetry collection, The Sky Will Hold, at the Ivy!

Hazen's poetic eye and voice are one of a kind, and in this latest collection she focuses them on life: life inside a second marriage, life in middle age, life as a stepparent. It's a close look at desire and addiction, at love and loss, at learning how to let go while still holding on to what is necessary. Elizabeth Hazen doesn't back away from sticky topics, we see the inner workings of blended families, parenting a nearly-grown child, and living in an aging body with all the freedoms and pitfalls it can bring.

This collection is a mantra of survival and love and continuing to move forward and always, always, believing the sky will hold, even when all signs point to the opposite. Mary Jo Salter and Courtney LeBlanc will join Hazen for an insightful and exciting conversation about this work. Please join us for inspiration and celebration as we usher these beautiful poems into the world.

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Elizabeth Hazen is a poet and essayist. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Epoch, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has published three collections of poetry: Chaos Theories (2016), Girls Like Us (2020), and The Sky Will Hold (2026). She lives in Baltimore with her family.

Mary Jo Salter is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Cameo Appearance, forthcoming from Knopf this year. She is professor emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.

Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the four full-length collections, most recently Her Dark Everything. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press, and Poetry Coven, a monthly generative workshop. She loves pitbulls, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.

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