2024-25 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Poet, Visiting Professor, and Princeton alumna Monica Youn, Class of 1993, will read from her work. Book signing will follow; books will be available for purchase through Labyrinth Books.
About Monica Youn
Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From (Graywolf Press 2023), which was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Voelcker Award, and was longlisted for the PEN Jean Stein Award. From From was a New York Times Notable Book and Best Poetry Book of 2023 as well as being named a best book of the year by Time Magazine, NPR, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Her previous book, Blackacre, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award and the PEN Open Book Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was named a best poetry book of 2016 by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Paris Review. Her book Ignatz was also a finalist for the National Book Award.
Youn has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship. A former constitutional lawyer, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is professor of English at UC Irvine.
Admission & Details
The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets required.
Directions
Get directions to the Wallace Theater, located on the Forum level of the Lewis Arts complex.
Accessibility
The Wallace Theater is an accessible venue with an assistive listening system. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information about our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
