Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Join us for a reading and conversation with poets Jalen Eutsey and Dora Malech.
About Bubble Gum Stadium:
A home is made by the memories it holds, and in Bubble Gum Stadium, Jalen Eutsey makes us his house guests. Flush with the rich colors of South Florida, these poems immerse you in a history of a place and its people. Bubble Gum Stadium grips the reader with its immersive recollections and starkly beautiful language. We’re given a scrapbook of black community and coming-of age, so lovingly rendered in the backdrop of West Perrine. Memory offered as a gift, one Eutsey asks us to treasure; after all, what happens when it’s gone?
About Flourish:
In Flourish, multiple meanings catch light — as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing the reader in the pleasures of language itself — the “flourish” of linguistic gesture, play, form, turn, and adornment.
Here, the lens zooms in and out to micro and macro levels, asking us to see the familiar with new eyes. The collection engages with the materials of the worlds we inhabit — natural worlds and those of our own making — and a full spectrum of poetry’s own materials, building worlds of words and illuminating the shadowed terrain of our interior landscapes as well.
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Join us for a reading and conversation with poets Jalen Eutsey and Dora Malech.
About Bubble Gum Stadium:
A home is made by the memories it holds, and in Bubble Gum Stadium, Jalen Eutsey makes us his house guests. Flush with the rich colors of South Florida, these poems immerse you in a history of a place and its people. Bubble Gum Stadium grips the reader with its immersive recollections and starkly beautiful language. We’re given a scrapbook of black community and coming-of age, so lovingly rendered in the backdrop of West Perrine. Memory offered as a gift, one Eutsey asks us to treasure; after all, what happens when it’s gone?
About Flourish:
In Flourish, multiple meanings catch light — as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing the reader in the pleasures of language itself — the “flourish” of linguistic gesture, play, form, turn, and adornment.
Here, the lens zooms in and out to micro and macro levels, asking us to see the familiar with new eyes. The collection engages with the materials of the worlds we inhabit — natural worlds and those of our own making — and a full spectrum of poetry’s own materials, building worlds of words and illuminating the shadowed terrain of our interior landscapes as well.
🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 streamyard.com/pal/d/6512788099039232
