In a particular episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran, and Megan Fernandes be a part of Kevin Young to learn their work, and to talk about Asian-American poetics and the function of poetry in our tumultuous occasions.
Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at Queens College, City University of New York, has acquired a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has revealed ten books of poems, together with, most lately, “Foreign Bodies.”
Monica Youn, a former lawyer and a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, teaches at Princeton. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, she’s going to publish a brand new guide of poems, “From From,” in 2023.
Paul Tran, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, has acquired a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 92Y Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their début poetry assortment, “All the Flowers Kneeling,” will likely be revealed in 2022.
Megan Fernandes is an assistant professor of English and writer-in-residence at Lafayette College. A finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize and the Saturnalia Book Prize, her most up-to-date poetry assortment is “Good Boys.”
