Jennifer Huang

Jennifer Huang is the author of Return Flight, which was awarded the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Huang was born in Maryland to Taiwanese immigrants and has since called many places their home.

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Excerpt: Robert Schouten's Rinkeldekinkel

Milkweed Staff — 06/22/2021

A great deal of Dutch poetry nowadays is influenced by urban tendencies, by movies, by social media, by elements of the news. Earlier generations often focused on nature, that traditional source of consolation for modern man who has lost his religious faith and paradise. This tendency also means that most younger poets do not strive any longer for unity behind all diversity, for calming the chaos, for a symbolist view on reality; on the contrary, they emphasize pluriformity, changes of registers, they prefer the prismatic glance of diversity.

 Also quite striking is the renewal of language in Dutch poetry seen…

Rob Schouten

Robert Schouten is a Dutch writer, poet, columnist, and literary critic of the daily Trouw. He was a writer in residence at the U of M (1986/87), Professor of literary criticism at the Free University of Amsterdam (1993-1996).

New York, NY —

Michael Kleber-Diggs at Pigeon Pages NYC

Join Michael Kleber-Diggs in conversation with Alex McElroy, and Camille Wanliss at McNally Jackson Books. This event will be hosted by Jiordan Castle. More details here!

Minneapolis, MN —

Black Flowers: How To Regrow Black Joy After 2020, ft. Michael Kleber-Diggs

Join us for a night of poetry, performance and panel on black joy, regrowth, grief and imagination. This will be a public event that will center and uplift black people, black artists and black voices. ASL interpreters will be present for this event.


Notes: hosted by Black Table Arts Co-op via Zoom.

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