Poetry as Architecture: Conversation and Open Mic Night with Kyle Liang

525 West 120th Street,New York NY 10027

26 April, 2023

Description

In honor of National Poetry Month and the upcoming Asian American Heritage Month, Poet Kyle Liang will be a featured speaker and reader for Poetry as Architecture: An Intimate Conversation & Open Mic Night with Kyle Liang. During this session, Kyle will be interviewed by Adjunct Instructor, Darius Phelps on his debut chapbook How to Build a House, diving into the themes of immigration, assimilation, and how poetry has been his bridge to liberating himself as a person of color. After an interview and poetry reading from Kyle, attendees will be invited to conclude the evening with an open mic session. Afterwards, light refreshments will be served. This event will be in Grace Dodge Hall Room 179 and is hosted by the Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs and Teachers College English Education Department. Admissions is FREE. Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations.  To request disability-related accommodations contact OASID at  [email protected], (212)678-3689, (646)755-3144 video phone, as early as possible. Bio: Kyle Liang is the son of Taiwanese and Malaysian immigrants. He is the author of the chapbook HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE (winner of the 2017 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest), and his debut full-length collection, GOOD SON, will be forthcoming from Sundress Publications in early 2024. Kyle’s work has appeared in Best of the Net, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, Glass: A Journal of Poetry,wildness, Diode and elsewhere. He is an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University, a teacher for Brooklyn Poets, and a physician assistant in internal medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. Kyle lives in New York City with his wife Morgan.