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SUMMARY:Forms & Fissures
DESCRIPTION:Featured writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok. Presented by the Poetry Foundation.\nPoets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok read selections of their work, followed by a discussion of their processes, themes, techniques, and more.\nBook signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)\n🖊️Diana Khoi Nguyen: 4:00 – 4:20\n🖊️Cindy Juyoung Ok: 4:00 – 4:20\nFULL SCHEDULE ( https://americanwritersmuseum.org/american-writers-festival/schedule/ )\nAbout the writer:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA poet and multimedia artist, DIANA KHOI NGUYEN is the author of Ghost Of (2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Root Fractures (2024). Her video work has recently been exhibited at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art. Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow and member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s). A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, she currently teaches in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.\nCINDY JUYOUNG OK is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the translator of the forthcoming English translation of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks by these writers:\nVIEW FESTIVAL READING LIST\n\nRoot Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen\nNational Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.\n\nWard Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok\nOk moves assuredly between spaces—from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to hospice wards. She plumbs these institutions of constraint, ward to ward, and the role of each reality’s language, word to word, as she uncovers fractured private codes and shares them in argument, song, and prayer.\n\n
URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/program-calendar/american-writers-festival-poetry-forms-and-fissures/
CATEGORIES:AAPI Voices,American Writers Festival,Poetry
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center
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