Hot L Poets Series, ft. Elizabeth Hazen & Dorian Elizabeth Knapp

The Hot L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop! Featuring poets Elizabeth Hazen & Dorian Elizabeth Knapp, plus an open mic. Sunday May 10, 2026 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore) with poets Elizabeth Hazen & Dorian Elizabeth Knapp! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 8th year, the reading series is sponsored by Baltimore Poets Theatre and Smartish Pace. Hosts: Clare Banks, David Yezzi and Stephen Reichert. Click here to RSVP! Click here to order The Sky Will Hold by Elizabeth Hazen! Copies of Causa Sui by Dorian Elizabeth Knapp will be available at the event. Elizabeth Hazen is a poet, essayist, and teacher. She is currently teaching poetry at Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup through the Goucher College Prison Education Partnership. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Epoch, American Literary Review, Smartish Pace, Shenandoah Literary Magazine, and other journals. She has published three collections of poetry: Chaos Theories (Alan Squire Publishing, 2016), Girls Like Us (Alan Squire Publishing, 2020), and The Sky Will Hold (Riot in Your Throat, 2026). She lives in Baltimore with her family. Dorian Elizabeth Knapp is the author of Causa Sui (Three Mile Harbor Press, 2025), winner of the Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Prize; Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2019), winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize; and The Spite House (C&R Press, 2011), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize. She is the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Hood College and lives in Maryland with her family.