A Reading by poet Monica Youn, followed by a conversation with Joseph Jeon

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Monica Youn is the author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), which won the William
Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. It was also shortlisted for the
National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award, longlisted for the
National Book Award, and named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by the New York
Times, the Washington Post, and BuzzFeed. Her previous book Ignatz (Four Way Books
2010) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded the Levinson
Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship
from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship. A former constitutional lawyer,
she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is an
associate professor of English at UC Irvine.

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon is Director of the Center for Critical Korean Studies and Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Vicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century (Stanford University Press, 2019) and Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2012).
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