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Diasporic Poetics: Reading by Debut Asian American Poets
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Join four award-winning Asian diasporic poets for a celebratory reading of their debut poetry books. Whether excavating diasporic grief; reckoning with the silence of language; questioning the role of faith and belonging; complicating the translator’s agency—these unique poets challenge what it means to write and belong to the contemporary Asian American diaspora. The reading will be followed by a conversation about their writing journeys including their advice for poets working on their debut.
Participants
Jay Gao's debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet, 2022) is a winner of an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. He is a contributing editor at The White Review and a reader for Poetry magazine. Currently, he lives in New York and is a PhD student at Columbia University.
Megan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith (Four Way Books, 2024). Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson.
Jimin Seo is the author of Ossia, a winner of The Changes Book Prize. He earned his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. His most recent project, Poems of Consumption, is a collaboration with artist Hamed Sinno premiering at the Barbican Centre in London.
Susan Nguyen is the author of the poetry collection Dear Diaspora (University of Nebraska Press), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and an AAAS Outstanding Achievement Award. She is currently the senior editor of Hayden's Ferry Review.
Xiao Yue Shan
