#  Writing Asian America: A Reading and Conversation with Three Poets 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 22, 2019** 

 04:15PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **S030, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

*Asian American Studies Seminar Series; Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and Asian American Studies Working Group*

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**Tamiko Beyer**  
The author of the poetry collections *Last Days* (forthcoming) and *We Come Elemental.* Her work has been published in *Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, Dusie,* and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman and VONA fellow and a Hedgebrook alum. A social justice communications writer and strategist, she spends her days writing truth to power.  
  
**Paul Tran**  
The recipient of the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from *Poetry Magazine* and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work appears in *The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine,* and elsewhere. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, placing Top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and Top 2 at the National Poetry Slam.  
  
**Emily Yoon**  
The author of *Ordinary Misfortunes* (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. Her first full-length collection, *A Cruelty Special to Our Species*, was published by Ecco in 2018. Her poems and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry magazine, Columbia Journal Online, Pinwheel, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor for *The Margins*, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is pursuing a PhD in Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. In 2017, Yoon was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.   
  
Chaired by **Ju Yon Kim**, Professor of English, Harvard University



 

 



 

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