Monica Youn (1993, English), Univ alumna and Rhodes Scholar, will be in conversation with Topé Folarin (Texas & Harris Manchester, 2004) in a virtual event organised by the Rhodes Trust on 18 September – 5-6pm (UK) 12pm (ET) 9am (PT). The conversation is part of the Rhodes Trust Scholars’ Library Series.

As part of the event, Monica Youn will discuss and read from her poetry collections.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is via the Rhodes Trust website.

Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently FROM FROM (Graywolf Press 2023, Carcanet Press (UK)), which was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and Best Poetry Book of 2023. Her books have twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award, as well as being finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Voelcker Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She has also 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 a professor of English at UC Irvine.

Topé Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. His debut novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was published by Simon & Schuster.

Published: 16 September 2024

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