The Loft at Open Book
1011 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
This is a ticketed event. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for non-members. You can purchase tickets here. Limited pay what you can seats will be available at the door.
As part of the Loft’s yearlong theme exploring Narrative Power, Courtney Faye Taylor will read from her Cave Canem Poetry Prize–winning poetry collection, Concentrate. Su Hwang will then join Courtney in conversation around the collection that she described as “medicine, testimony, quest, anthem, balm, and seed.” Please join the Loft and Graywolf Press to celebrate the publication of a collection poet Franny Choi declared a “major work, a profoundly moving anti-erasure crafted with equal parts ingenuity and care.”
Presented by the Loft and Graywolf Press.
Book sales and signing will be available through Black Garnet Books.
A limited number of pay-what-you-can seats will be available at the door on a first come, first serve basis.
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.