Virtual
St. Paul, MN 55101
United States
Admission: $30
Hear Su Hwang (Bodega) at Novel Stages! The festival endeavors to champion artists who cross boundaries and challenge musical genre, and reward audiences eager to explore.
Novel Stages is a ‘festival’ of sorts for the unusual time we find ourselves in and the digital stages that now are our venues. Artists will share 30 minute sets of pre-recorded performances from their studios and homes (for better audio and video quality!), previously unavailable concert footage, and new creative presentations intended for your screen.
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.