Chapbook Launch: S_MMER CR_SH by Stine An
A book launch and reading to celebrate the publication of S_MMER CR_SH by Stine An. A winner of the 2024 Sarabande Chapbook Prize, S_MMER CR_SH delivers a fresh set of summer sestets inspired by Kafka, summer depression/desire, and a truly twisty Korean folktale from Chungcheong Province about a sassy snail bride.
Join Stine and four other writers and artists for a juicy evening of genre-bending readings and performances about crushes, depression, desire, and perhaps, snails. Featuring readings and performances from Lydia Liu, Hope Yoon, Jennifer Shyue, Jackie Wang, and Stine An. Copies of the chapbook and light refreshments will be available for purchase. Doors @ 6pm. Readings begin at 6:30.
Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer in NYC whose work explores diasporic poetics, experimental translation, and virtual performance. Her poems and translations appear in Best Literary Translations 2024, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. A 2024 NEA Translation Fellow, Stine is the author of S_MMER CR_SH (Sarabande Books, 2025) and the translator of Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025).
Lydia T. Liu is the author of The problem of deer (Finishing Line Press, 2025), a finalist in the Poetry Society of America Chapbook contest selected by Eileen Myles. Her recent work has appeared in Cimarron Review and Poetry Northwest. A diasporic poet of Chinese and Singaporean heritage, she writes about the strangeness of the world as it moves through the self. Beyond the page, she explores the intersection of poetry and musical improvisation. Find her at lydialiupoet.com.
Hope Yoon is a writer, translator, and theater-maker from Seoul. Hope is currently based in Brooklyn developing a new stage play as a member of the Writer/Director Lab at Soho Rep and working as a narrative writer for LINE Games.
Jennifer Shyue is a translator from Spanish and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. Her translations include Julia Wong Kcomt’s poetry collections A Blind Salmon and Vice-royal-ties, as well as Augusto Higa Oshiro’s novel The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, which received the ALTA First Translation Prize.
Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (Nightboat Books, 2021; National Book Award Finalist), the experimental essay and poetry collection Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotext(e), 2023), and The Collected Graces (forthcoming from Coffee House Press). She holds a PhD and MA in African and African American Studies from Harvard University and a BA in Liberal Arts from New College of Florida. Prior to joining Brown’s faculty, she was an Assistant Professor at The New School and the University of Southern California.