Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lynn Xu and Jacob Kahn
Overview
The Poetry Center presents poets Lynn Xu and Jacob Kahn, each reading their work then joining in conversation with one another and their audience. Xu's book, And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave Books, 2022), is selected by Kahn to receive The Poetry Center Book Award, given each year since 1980 to an outstanding book of poems. Join us for this online-only event.
VIDEO for this program will be posted after editing at Poetry Center Digital Archive.
Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of the full-length collections Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave Books, 2022). The latter work was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson as an exhibition of the same title, and the book was selected for The Poetry Center Book Award. Author as well of two chapbooks: June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021), Xu has performed cross-disciplinary works at the Guggenheim Museum, the Renaissance Society, Rising Time Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, co-edits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and West Texas. Photo by Joshua Edwards.
Jacob Kahn is a poet, editor, and curator living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of the book Mine Eclogue (Roof Books, 2022) and several chapbooks, most recently A Is For Aegis (DoubleCross Press, 2021). With Sophia Dahlin, he runs the chapbook press, Eyelet Press, and the reading series, Islet. Previously, he was a managing editor, curator, and bookseller at Wolfman Books, a bookstore, small press, and community arts hub in downtown Oakland, and a 2018 fellow at Epicenter in Green River, UT, a rural design studio and community-based artist residency. He works as a librarian at Berkeley Public Library. Photo by Nikolai Hagen.
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