Twin Cities PBS
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Minneapolis, MN N/A
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Join TPT for an evening of poetry focused on the four elements of the earth and their relation to political voice and the power of language. This virtual event will feature Su Hwang, author of Bodega, Roy Guzmán, Michael Torres, & Ray Gonzalez. Register here!
The artists will show how the elements of fire, water, air, and earth create poetry through a commitment to the political voice, the autobiography of migration, and the natural power of language that makes poetry go beyond borders to find universal truth.
Minnesota is a haven for artists — some of them well-known, others we still need to meet. That’s why TPT — Twin Cities PBS launched ART IS…, a multi-media and events series aimed at bringing visibility to emerging and established artists in new ways.
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.