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Designing Women: Tayi Tibble & Shelley Wong
General Admission Pass required for entry
A discussion of two exciting debut poetry collections. Poūkahangatus is the American debut of acclaimed young poet Tayi Tibble. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Shelley Wong‘s debut collection, As She Appears (longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry), celebrates queer and Asian identity in “shape-shifting poems of becoming and knowing, seeing and being seen” (Electric Lit). Moderated by poet Genevieve DeGuzman.
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