Join us on Thursday, March 17 at 12:00 PM ET in the Arts Café and on YouTube for a conversation with poet and scholar TIMOTHY YU. JO PARK and AL FILREIS will join Yu for a discussion of his new book Diasporic Poetics, which examines English-language poets of Asian descent working around the Pacific Rim — in the United States, Canada, the Philippines, and Australia. In Diasporic Poetics, Yu argues that these poets have developed a distinctive poetics that exceeds our current paradigms of race, nation, and diaspora. We'll enjoy boxed lunches together after the conversation. Register here to attend this event in person.
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TIMOTHY YU is Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Oxford University Press) and of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford University Press), which won the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. He is also the author of the poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press), the Editor’s Selection in the 2014 NOS Book Contest. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry and Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press), and he also serves as executive editor of the Journal of Contemporary Literature.
JOSEPHINE PARK is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (Oxford 2008) and Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature (Oxford 2016). She is the co-editor of Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity (Bloomsbury 2016), with Paul Stasi, and Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965 (Cambridge 2021), with Victor Bascara. She has served on the editorial boards of American Literature, The Journal of Asian American Studies, PMLA, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.
AL FILREIS is Kelly Family Professor of English, Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-director of PennSound, and founder and Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern (2021), Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism (1994) and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–60 (2008), and he is the host of the podcast PoemTalk.
Place: Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk | Arts Café & YouTube