Sylvia Jones: "Dope Calisthenics" & Jane Lewty: "Vespers"

Join us for a reading and conversation with poets Sylvia Jones and Jane Lewty, sharing work from their new books. About Dope Calisthenics: Sylvia Jones's sophomore collection examines the pressure exerted on working-class Black life by spectacle, debt, inheritance, and the market's endless demand for performance. The poems move through Baltimore, television, retail language, protest remnants, and borrowed speech, tracking how public feeling hardens into product and how survival becomes a style o