Proleptic Form: Toward a Poetics of Self Defense
Wednesday, Dec 6 2023 2:00 PM
Wednesday, Dec 6 2023 3:00 PM
America/New_York
Proleptic Form: Toward a Poetics of Self Defense
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A craft talk with Monica Youn.
Cricket Hill Barn
Bennington College
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Free
Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Monica Youn is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently From From (Graywolf, 2023). Her previous collection Blackacre (Graywolf, 2016) received the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Open Book Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Ignatz (Four Way, 2010) was a National Book Award finalist. The daughter of Korean immigrants, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former lawyer with a JD from Yale Law School, Youn is an associate professor in the UC Irvine creative writing program and a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute.