Love-Grief in Poetry

Please join us for a reading and conversation with poets Jimin Seo and Emily Jungmin Yoon, moderated by R. A. Villanueva. The authors will discuss the poetics of love, grief, haunting, and Asian diasporic experience. 

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024); A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. She has also translated and edited a chapbook of poems, Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets (Tilted Axis, 2019). She has accepted awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. Yoon currently serves as the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the digital magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and an Assistant Professor of Korean literature t at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. 

R. A. Villanueva is the author of two collections of poetry: A Holy Dread, winner of the Alice James Award (forthcoming in 2026) and Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. New work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets and National Public Radio—and his writing appears widely in international publications such as Poetry London and The Poetry Review. His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes, and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Born in New Jersey, he lives in Brooklyn.

Jimin Seo was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. He is the author of OSSIA, winner of The Changes Book Prize, and the forthcoming chapbook A-1982. He is the recipient of Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, selected by Phillip B. Williams. His poems can be found in Action Fokus, The Canary, LitHub, Pleiades, mercury firs, and The Bronx Museum. His most recent projects were Poems of Consumption with H. Sinno at the Barbican Centre in London, and a site activation for salazarsequeromedina's Open Pavilion at the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

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