Ryan Teitman with Alejandro Lucero and Katie Moulton: PAPERWEIGHT

Poet Ryan Teitman visits The Ivy to read from his exciting new collection, Paperweight!

Alongside Baltimore writers Alejandro Lucero and Katie Moulton, Ryan Teitman will share these gemlike, multifaceted poems that dive into how humans harness their ability to create--whether to make works of art or to simply find hope in the depths of grief.

By exploring the boundaries of the prose poem, Teitman finds unexpected lenses through which to view the beauty of the natural world, the breadth of contemporary culture, and the narratives of everyday life.

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Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collections Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012) and Paperweight (University of Akron Press, 2026), winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Yale Review, and his awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He lives in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.

Alejandro Lucero is the author of At the Bottom of the Sea with One Light, winner of the 25th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize (BOA Editions, 2027), and the chapbook, Sapello Son, which was named the Editors’ Selection for the Frost Place Competition (Bull City Press, 2024). His work appears in Best New Poets 2023 & 2025, Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Southern Review, and other journals and anthologies. He lives in Baltimore, where he recently served as a Salter Lecturer in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and a senior editor for The Hopkins Review.

Katie Moulton is the author of the audio memoir Dead Dad Club: On Grief and Tom Petty (Audible 2022). Her essays and music criticism appear in The Believer, New England Review, Oxford American, Ninth Letter, Village Voice, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Ragdale, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, VCCA, and many other organizations. She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and the Newport MFA.

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