Date: 17 April 2011
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Verlaine, 110 Rivington (b/w Ludlow & Essex), New York, NY, Created By
Join us for a night of libation and poetry with Srikanth Reddy, Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo, and Ocean Vuong. Open Bar, 4 - 5 pm. Reading begins at 5 pm. $5 suggested donation.
Readers' Bios:
Srikanth Reddy is the author of Facts for Visitors, which received the 2005 Asian American Literary Award, and a new book of poetry titled Voyager, both published by the University of California Press. A scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press as well. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Born in Alabama, Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo has lived in New York for the past 15 years. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where she was Poetry Editor of Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature. She is also a recipient of the 2009 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a summer 2010 residency at the Saltonstall Arts Colony. Her poems can be found in such venues as Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat and Western Humanities Review.
Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press 2010) and is currently an undergraduate English Major at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His poems have received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Beatrice Dubin Rose Award, the Connecticut Poetry Society's Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. His work appears in Word Riot, Diode, Lantern Review, Softblow, Asia Literary Review, and PANK among others. Poems have also been translated into Hindi, Russian, Korean, and Vietnamese. He lives in Brooklyn and is an avid supporter of animal rights and veganism.
MISSION STATEMENT: Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.
More information here.
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Verlaine, 110 Rivington (b/w Ludlow & Essex), New York, NY, Created By
Join us for a night of libation and poetry with Srikanth Reddy, Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo, and Ocean Vuong. Open Bar, 4 - 5 pm. Reading begins at 5 pm. $5 suggested donation.
Readers' Bios:
Srikanth Reddy is the author of Facts for Visitors, which received the 2005 Asian American Literary Award, and a new book of poetry titled Voyager, both published by the University of California Press. A scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press as well. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Born in Alabama, Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo has lived in New York for the past 15 years. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where she was Poetry Editor of Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature. She is also a recipient of the 2009 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a summer 2010 residency at the Saltonstall Arts Colony. Her poems can be found in such venues as Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat and Western Humanities Review.
Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press 2010) and is currently an undergraduate English Major at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His poems have received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Beatrice Dubin Rose Award, the Connecticut Poetry Society's Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. His work appears in Word Riot, Diode, Lantern Review, Softblow, Asia Literary Review, and PANK among others. Poems have also been translated into Hindi, Russian, Korean, and Vietnamese. He lives in Brooklyn and is an avid supporter of animal rights and veganism.
MISSION STATEMENT: Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.
More information here.
