October 30, 2019, Wednesday - Kenji Liu w/ Marlin M. Jenkins, Julian Randall, & Sun Yung Shin at Milkweed Books

Time: 7p

Location: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue So

Kenji Liu w/ Marlin M. Jenkins, Julian Randall, & Sun Yung Shin

Poetry Asylum presents Kenji Liu with Marlin M. Jenkins, Julian Randall, and Sun Yung Shin for a reading, followed by a light reception and book signing.

We will also be joined by representatives from Hedgebrook Women's Writers Residency: Amy Wheeler, Executive Director; Britt Conn, Program Manager; and Sharon Magliano Feliciano, Assistant Director of Development & Outreach who are in town for the Alliance of Artist Communities Conference.

Come to the reading, stay for conversations!

Wednesday, October 30 | Reading 7PM; Reception at 8PM
Target Performance Hall | Open Book, 2nd Floor
1011 Washington Ave, Minneapolis, 55415
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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🌟Marlin M Jenkins was born and raised in Detroit and is the author of the poetry chapbook CAPABLE MONSTERS, forthcoming with Bull City Press in early 2020. A graduate of University of Michigan's MFA program, his work has found homes with Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and Iowa Review, among others. He's worked with young writers through the Neutral Zone, Ann Arbor's teen center, and in a Detroit Public School through the InsideOut Literary Arts Project. He currently lives in St. Paul.

🌟Kenji C. Liu is author of Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books, 2019) and Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize (Inlandia Institute). His poetry is in American Poetry Review, Apogee, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, and two chapbooks, Craters: A Field Guide (2017) and You Left Without Your Shoes (2009). A recipient of fellowships and residencies from Kundiman, VONA/Voices, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he lives in Los Angeles.

🌟Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. A fellow of Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Callaloo, BOAAT and the Watering Hole, Julian is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been published in New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and POETRY. His essays appear in Vibe, Black Nerd Problems and other venues. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Ole Miss. His first book, Refuse (Pitt, Fall 2018), is the winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry. Julian is the inaugural Milkweed Books fellow. He talks a lot about poems on Twitter at @ JulianThePoet.

🌟신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is the author of poetry/essay collections Unbearable Splendor; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black. She is the editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. Her illustrated bilingual (Korean/English) children's book is Cooper's Lesson. With poet Su Hwang, she co-directs Poetry Asylum. She is an anti-racism consultant and workshop facilitator, creative writing teacher, freelance writer, and an emerging healing practitioner/bodyworker. She lives in Minneapolis.  Liu w/ Marlin M. Jenkins, Julian Randall, & Sun Yung Shin