The Cherrity Bar
302 Montana St
San Antonio, TX 78203
United States
Free and open to the public.
Join us for the launch of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit at AWP at The Cherrity Bar (a five minute walk from the Gonzalez Convention Center)! With introductions by co-editors Lee Herrick and Leah Silvieus and readings from anthology contributors Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Marianne Chan, Jennifer S. Cheng, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Leslieann Hobayan, Su Hwang, Vandana Khanna, Timothy Liu, Joseph O. Legaspi, Faisal Mohyuddin, Michelle Peñaloza, Purvi Shah, Sun Yung Shin, and Adeeba Shahid Talukder.
Su Hwang
Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega, which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised in New York then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest, where she received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature, among other honors, she is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and is the cofounder, with poet Sun Yung Shin, of Poetry Asylum. Su Hwang currently lives in Minneapolis.
This collection offers a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work.