Join us at NYPL on the SNFL terrace for readings by Hamid Roslan, Monica Youn, Vijay Seshadri, plus drinks, crafts, and more with Singapore Unbound! Register for the free #LIVEfromNYPL event: http://on.nypl.org/mayhappyhour
Join us at any point between 5:30-7:30 PM. Readings will begin at about 6:15 PM.
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and for this month’s happy hour, NYPL is partnering with Singapore Unbound. Building connections between Singaporean and American authors, Singapore Unbound is dedicated to the struggle for freedom of expression and equal rights for all through literary and cultural exchange.
Hamid Roslan is the author of parsetreeforestfire (Ethos Books, 2019), a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020. His prose and poetry can be found in Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (Tilted Axis Press, 2022), New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022) and in other literary journals. Find him at https://hamidroslan.com.
Monica Youn is the author of From From (Graywolf Press 2023), Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), Ignatz (Four Way Books 2010), and Barter (Graywolf Press 2003). She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship among other honors. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the PEN Open Book Award. A former constitutional lawyer and the daughter of Korean immigrants, she grew up in Houston and now splits her time between Brooklyn and Southern California, where she is an associate professor of English at UC Irvine.
Vijay Seshadri is the author of the poetry books Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, The Disappearances (HarperCollins India), 3 Sections, and, in 2020, That Was Now, This Is Then, as well as dozens of essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been widely published, anthologized, and recognized with a number of honors, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.