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Creative Writing Reading Series: Monica Youn
Friday, November 10, 2023 5:30pm to 7pm
Jonsson Conference Room (JO 4.122), JO 4.122
Free Event
Friday, November 10, 2023 5:30pm to 7pm
Jonsson Conference Room (JO 4.122), JO 4.122
Free Event
The acclaimed poet, Monica Youn, will read from her dazzling and award-winning new collection FROM FROM (Graywolf Press, 2023).
“Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never belong here, you’re a perpetual foreigner, you’ll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.
Monica Youn’s From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of “authenticity,” no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners’ ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. From From is an extraordinary collection by a poet whose daring and inventive works are among the most vital in contemporary literature.
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.
Jonsson Conference Room (JO 4.122), JO 4.122
free
Undergraduate Students, Faculty & Staff, Alumni, General Public, Prospective Students, Graduate Students, International Students
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