In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran, and Megan Fernandes join\xa0Kevin Young\xa0to read their work, and to discuss Asian-American poetics and the role of poetry in our tumultuous times.
\nKimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at Queens College, City University of New York, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poems, including, most recently, \u201cForeign Bodies.\u201d
\nMonica Youn, a former lawyer and a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, teaches at Princeton. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, she will publish a new book of poems, \u201cFrom From,\u201d in 2023.
\nPaul Tran, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 92Y Discovery/Boston Review\xa0Poetry Prize. Their debut poetry collection, \u201cAll the Flowers Kneeling,\u201d will be published in 2022.
\nMegan Fernandes\xa0is an assistant professor of English and writer-in-residence at Lafayette College. A finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize and the Saturnalia Book Prize, her most recent poetry collection is \u201cGood Boys.\u201d