Brooklyn Poets reading with Jennifer Huang, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and Ed Bok Lee
Join us for a virtual reading with Brooklyn Poets, featuring Jennifer Huang, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and Ed Bok Lee.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
Participants
Jennifer Huang is the author of Return Flight, which was awarded the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, the Rumpus, and Narrative, among other places. In 2020, Jennifer earned their MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. Born in Maryland to Taiwanese immigrants, they have since called many places home.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland (Notre Dame Press, 2022) and Migrant Psalms (Northwestern University Press, 2021). He is also the coauthor of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations, an Over the Rainbow List selection by the American Library Association, and the coeditor of Happiness, The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, published to commemorate the United Nations International Day of Happiness. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, the CP Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, and the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize from Northwestern University Press. His poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing and elsewhere in print and online. He is an assistant professor of creative writing and playwriting at Medgar Evers College—CUNY and also teaches as part of the arts faculty at NYU Gallatin.
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.
Ed Bok Lee is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Mitochondrial Night (Coffee House Press, 2019). He is the recipient of an American Book Award, Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice), Minnesota Book Award and PEN/Open Book Award. Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul and college on and between both US coasts and abroad. Recent works include the essay “Pandemic Love” in We Are Meant to Rise (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and Smiling in an Old Photograph: Poems by Kim Ki-taek (OHM Editions, 2022), which he cotranslated. Lee holds an MFA from Brown University and teaches part-time in fine arts at Metro State University in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN.
This program is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Join us for a virtual reading with Brooklyn Poets, featuring Jennifer Huang, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and Ed Bok Lee.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
Participants
Jennifer Huang is the author of Return Flight, which was awarded the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, the Rumpus, and Narrative, among other places. In 2020, Jennifer earned their MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. Born in Maryland to Taiwanese immigrants, they have since called many places home.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland (Notre Dame Press, 2022) and Migrant Psalms (Northwestern University Press, 2021). He is also the coauthor of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations, an Over the Rainbow List selection by the American Library Association, and the coeditor of Happiness, The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, published to commemorate the United Nations International Day of Happiness. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, the CP Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, and the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize from Northwestern University Press. His poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing and elsewhere in print and online. He is an assistant professor of creative writing and playwriting at Medgar Evers College—CUNY and also teaches as part of the arts faculty at NYU Gallatin.
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.
Ed Bok Lee is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Mitochondrial Night (Coffee House Press, 2019). He is the recipient of an American Book Award, Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice), Minnesota Book Award and PEN/Open Book Award. Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul and college on and between both US coasts and abroad. Recent works include the essay “Pandemic Love” in We Are Meant to Rise (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and Smiling in an Old Photograph: Poems by Kim Ki-taek (OHM Editions, 2022), which he cotranslated. Lee holds an MFA from Brown University and teaches part-time in fine arts at Metro State University in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN.