About this Event
Start your Day with Sahan is our breakfast event series featuring rising and prominent voices among Minnesota's immigrants and communities of color! ☕️
At this event, you'll get to:
- Enjoy a cozy breakfast of pastries and coffee/tea
- Bring a friend to introduce to Sahan Journal
- Hear from Sun Yung Shin, co-author of Revolutions are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs, and finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Awards
- Meet Sahan Journal executive director Vanan Murugesan, and hear how Sahan has stood shoulder to shoulder with Minnesota's communities in the past year
- Purchase a copy of Revolutions are Made of Love, and get it signed by Sun Yung!
ABOUT SUN YUNG:
Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised in the Chicago area. She is a poet, writer, and cultural worker. Shin is the author of the poetry collections The Wet Hex (2022); Unbearable Splendor (finalist for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book Award for poetry); Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (winner of the 2007 Asian American Literary Award for poetry), and the memoir Heart Eater forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press.
She is co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and author of bilingual illustrated book for children Cooper’s Lesson. She is the editor of What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories on Food and Family (2021) and of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.
She lives in Minneapolis where she co-directs the community organization Poetry Asylum with poet Su Hwang.
ON REVOLUTIONS ARE MADE OF LOVE, THE STORY OF JAMES BOGGS AND GRACE LEE BOGGS:
Revolutions are made out of love for people and for place.
This was a core belief of activists and married couple James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs. James Boggs was a worker from rural Alabama in the segregated South. Grace Lee Boggs was a philosopher from urban Rhode Island and New York City. Both found their life’s work, and each other, in Detroit. James and Grace were drawn to civil rights—and the labor, social, and political organizations through which people struggled for better living conditions for all.
What they created together was more than a marriage, it was a partnership. They fought with others for fair housing, jobs, food, labor unions, urban gardens, and more to make the world a better place for all. Their wide-ranging activism spanned the second half of the twentieth century. Authors Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal present the lives and ideas of James and Grace in an inspiring collection of paired poems with bold mixed-media artwork by debut picture book illustrator Leslie Barlow.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Saint Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), 550 Vandalia Street, Saint Paul, United States
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