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READING: Cindy Juyoung Ok + Hanif Abdurraqib
March 6 @ 8:00 pm EST
Join us in welcoming poet Cindy Juyoung Ok to the Unicorn Stage to read from their debut poetry collection, Ward Toward.
In the 118th volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Ok moves assuredly between spaces—from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided cities to separated countries. Ok plumbs connections between institutions of constraint, ward to ward, and the role of language, word to word, as she uncovers not only confinement but hope, humor, and connection. Positing that it is not a person’s character or will that makes survival possible, but luck, and other people, this energizing debut breaks language to find the fissures where it can be re-assembled into a new reality.
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Yale Younger winner Ward Toward and two chapbooks. She is a former high school science teacher and current Kenyon Review fellow teaching poetry at Kenyon College. A MacDowell and Lambda Literary fellow, she also edits and translates poetry.
