Organizer: Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Red Bean Poetry
Type/Location: Virtual
Description:
Come along and enjoy a brilliant event of poetry and discussion with several US-based poets who contributed to the State of Play anthology, who will also share from their recent work.
What lies within an Asian poet's consciounsess? What are they most concerned about in their writing lives? How do their consciousness as poet change the others? Where do poets find strength and hope in this era of radical change, write about the personal and the political from such consciousness, and to more fully engage within the wider community?
About the Speakers:
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His honors include the Thom Gunn Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the National Book Award longlist, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. He lives in Rochester, NY and teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.
R. A. Villanueva is the author of A Holy Dread, winner of the 2024 Alice James Award, and Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. New work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets and National Public Radio—and his writing appears widely in international publications such as Poetry London and The Poetry Review. His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes, and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Born in New Jersey, he lives in Brooklyn.
Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently FROM FROM, which was published by Graywolf Press in the U.S. and Carcanet Press in the U.K. in 2023. She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship. Her books have been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. A former constitutional lawyer, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is an associate professor of English at UC Irvine.
Ethan Yu lives in Chicago, Illinois, and is working on a master’s in psychoanalysis and divinity. His work has been published in The HongKonger and Where Else: An International Hong Kong anthology. He is working on his first collection.
Registration Link:
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