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The Woodberry Poetry Room is honored to present a reading by Brandon Shimoda (author of THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO, 2024) and Mai Der Vang (author of PRIMORDIAL, 2025).Introduction by Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Assistant Professor, Harvard Department of Comparative Literature.
Of Vang’s poetry, Carolyn Forché writes that the poems are marked by “deep attention, prismatic intelligence, and fearless truth.” Of Shimoda’s work, Anne Boyer praises his “complex lyric-historical landscape of borders, dreams, shrines and underworlds.”
Please join us for what promises to be an electrifying season finale event.
IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE: Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Mass. Free and open to the public.
ONLINE ATTENDANCE: Livestreaming available via the WPR YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/WoodberryPoetryRoom
Please contact us with any questions about this event. We can be reached by email at [email protected] or via phone at (617) 495-2454. We encourage persons with disabilities who would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access to contact Houghton Library at least three days in advance of the reading: [email protected]
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Houghton Library, Harvard Yard,Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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