The Best American Poetry 2024: With Guest Editor Mary Jo Salter

We’re so excited that this year’s volume of The Best American Poetry is compiled and edited by Baltimore-based poet and professor Mary Jo Salter! Join us to launch the anthology into the world from The Ivy’s back patio, where contributors including Armen Davoudian, and fellow editors including Dora Malech, Stephen Reichert, and Clare Banks will join Mary Jo Salter for a conversation and Q&A.

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Mary Jo Salter is the author of nine collections of poems, most recently Zoom Rooms (2022) and The Surveyors (2017). She has been editor of Amy Clampitt’s Collected Poems and Selected Poems, and a co-editor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. She also wrote the lyrics for composer Fred Hersch in the song cycle Rooms of Light: The Life of Photographs (2015). Her second children’s book, Leena Learns to Talk, will be published in 2024. Salter is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.

Dora Malech’s most recent book of poetry is Flourish, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which will publish her next book of poetry, Trying × Trying, in 2025. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry London, and The Best American Poetry, and her honors include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an associate professor in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review.

Armen Davoudian grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House, 2024) and the translator, from the Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024).

Davoudian is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.