Virtual
St. Paul, MN 55112
United States
Free and open to the public!
Join us for the seventh reading in the Further Notice Virtual Reading Series, featuring Marianne Chan and Su Hwang. Imagine listening to all this magic from the comfort of your bed or couch or wherever suits you!
Further Notice aims to promote and feature poets with recent or soon-to-be released titles whose tours and release events were affected by recent events. In a time of social distancing, let’s get close on Zoom and enjoy some poems. 8PM CST/ 9PM EST
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.