Milkweed Editions
Open Book, 2nd Floor
1011 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
Free and open to the public. RSVP requested via Facebook.
Please join Su Hwang on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at Open Book/Target Performance Hall to celebrate her debut poetry collection Bodega from Milkweed Editions (as well as her 45th turn around the sun) with very special guests D. Allen, Lisa Marie Brimmer, David Lawrence Grant, Roy Guzman, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Junauda Petrus-Nasah, Sun Yung Shin & Michael Torres, who will read, along with Su, their commissioned “bodega” poems as “a play.”
3:00pm: Doors open
3:30pm — 4:30pm: Reading
4:30pm — 5:30pm: Book signing + Reception (literary-punned cocktails & mocktails, bday cake!)
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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.