Hot L Poets Series: Featuring A.M. Juster and Jennifer Keith

Sunday October 12, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore) with poets A.M. Juster & Jennifer Keith!

The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less).

Now in our 7th year, the reading series is sponsored by Smartish Pace and Baltimore Poets Theatre. Hosts: Clare Banks, David Yezzi, Stephen Reichert, and Dan Todd.

A.M. Juster has published eleven books of poetry and translations, including The Billy Collins Experience (Kelsay, 2016) and The Secret Language of Women (U. of Evansville, 2003), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award. He has two forthcoming books including his translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere from W.W. Norton. His poetry appears in the most recent issue of Smartish Pace. Juster, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University Law School, has worked in senior positions for four US Presidents.

Jennifer Keith’s poems have appeared in The Nebraska Review, Sewanee Theological Review, The Free State Review, Unsplendid, Smartish Pace, Best American Poetry 2015 and elsewhere. Keith was a finalist for the 2021 Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace and her first full-length poetry book, Terminarch, was selected by David Yezzi for the 2023 Able Muse Book Award.

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