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SUMMARY: Poetry Panel with Victoria Chang and Brandon Shimoda (on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION: Join us for this exciting poetry panel with Victoria Chang and
  Brandon Shimoda\, moderated by Professor Sheryda Warrener. Victoria Chang’
 s latest works include her book of poetry The Trees Witness Everything (202
 2)\, her nonfiction book Dear Memory (2021)\, and her multi-award-winning b
 ook of poems OBIT (2020). Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer and the a
 uthor […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <blockquote><p>[image_spread img_url="https:/
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  this exciting poetry panel with <a href="https://victoriachangpoet.com/">V
 ictoria Chang</a> and <a href="https://linktr.ee/brandonshimoda">Brandon Sh
 imoda</a>\, moderated by Professor Sheryda Warrener.</p><p>Victoria Chang’s
  latest works include her book of poetry <em>The Trees Witness Everything</
 em> (2022)\, her nonfiction book <em>Dear Memory </em>(2021)\, and her mult
 i-award-winning book of poems <em>OBIT</em> (2020).</p><p>Brandon Shimoda i
 s a yonsei poet/writer and the author of <em>The Grave on the Wall</em> (20
 19)\, which received the PEN Open Book Award. He is currently writing a boo
 k of nonfiction on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration.</p><p>
 The panel will discuss writing into ancestral memories\, working with famil
 ial and historical artifacts\, and finding creativity in formal constraints
 .</p><p><em>This poetry panel is open to the public and free to attend. Reg
 istration is required to attend. </em></p><p>[buttons][button link_text=" R
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 hr /><h3>Speaker Biographies</h3><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><stron
 g>Victoria Chang’s</strong> latest book of poetry is </span><i><span style=
 "font-weight: 400\;">The Trees Witness Everything</span></i><span style="fo
 nt-weight: 400\;"> (Copper Canyon Press\, 2022). Her nonfiction book\, </sp
 an><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Dear Memory </span></i><span style="
 font-weight: 400\;">(Milkweed Editions)\, was published in 2021. </span><i>
 <span style="font-weight: 400\;">OBIT </span></i><span style="font-weight: 
 400\;">(Copper Canyon Press\, 2020)\, her prior book of poems was named a <
 /span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">New York Times Notable Book</span
 ></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, a </span><i><span style="font-weig
 ht: 400\;">Time Must-Read Book</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\
 , and received the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Los Angeles T
 imes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> Book Prize\, the Anisfield
 -Wolf Book Award in Poetry\, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longli
 sted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book C
 ritics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has rec
 eived a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and lives in Los Angeles and is Acting Prog
 ram Chair and faculty member within Antioch’s low-residency MFA Program.</s
 pan></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>Brandon Shimoda</strong
 > is a yonsei poet/writer and the author of several books\, most recently <
 /span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">The Grave on the Wall </span></i>
 <span style="font-weight: 400\;">(City Lights\, 2019)\, which received the 
 PEN Open Book Award. His book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarce
 ration received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation\, a
 nd is forthcoming from City Lights in 2024. </span></p><hr /><h3>Visiting W
 riters Program</h3><p style="font-weight: 400\;">The School of Creative Wri
 ting’s Visiting Writers Program provides an opportunity for our students\, 
 alumni and faculty to connect with insightful writers in small group settin
 gs. We encourage everyone in Creative Writing to take advantage of this opp
 ortunity – it’s a unique benefit of being involved in the School.</p><p sty
 le="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>This poetry panel is open to the public and
  free to attend. Registration is required to attend. </strong></p>
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