[Yale-readings] April 9 -- Poetry at Asian American Cultural Center

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Please join the Asian American Cultural Center at Yale for an evening of poetry and conversation on Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the AACC (295 Crown Street). Featured readers will include Subhashini Kaligotla, Leah Silvieus, Michelle Phương Ting, and Monica Ong. The post-reading Q&A will be facilitated by Eileen Huang (Timothy Dwight ‘22). If you have any questions, please reach out to leah.silvieus at yale.edu<mailto:leah.silvieus at yale.edu>.

About the readers:

Subhashini Kaligotla is a poet and architectural historian of medieval India. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in Creative Writing and a Kundiman poetry fellow, she has published in such journals as The Caravan, diode, LUMINA, New England Review, and The Literary Review, and in anthologies of Indian and diaspora poetry. Her poetry collection, Bird of the Indian Subcontinent, was the winner of the Emerging Poets Prize and published in 2018 by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She is Assistant Professor of South Asian Art at Yale University.

Monica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong has been awarded residencies most recently at the Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Based in Connecticut, she currently serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory.

Leah Silvieus is the author most recently of the poetry collection Arabilis and is the co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami and has received fellowships from The National Book Critics Circle, Fulbright, and Kundiman. She is Senior Books Editor at Hyphen magazine and her criticism has appeared in The Harvard Review, The Believer, and elsewhere. She currently studies literature and religion at Yale Divinity School.

Michelle Phương Ting is a poet and curator based in New Haven. Her writing has been  nominated for the “Best American Essays” series and most recently appeared in Apogee, Wildness, and Tupelo Quarterly. A Tin House alum and graduate of Yale University, she has received fellowships from Kenyon Writers Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, Omnidawn, Fine Arts Work Center, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Currently, she serves as a curator at NXTHVN, an arts incubator in the Dixwell neighborhood, and at The Racial Imaginary Institute, where she is co-organizing the 2020 Biennial, “On Nationalism: Borders & Belonging.”
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