Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic, mixed-race, Korean American poet, author of the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024) which won the Paterson Poetry Prize & was a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her book, NIGHT SWIM, won the Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems are forthcoming or have been featured on NPR, Poetry Daily, Best American Poetry & The Slowdown & in Poetry, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Split Lip, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center & SWWIM & lives in Milford, CT.
The Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival takes place in April each year and is the largest, open, student-run Poetry Festival in New York. Since 2003, we have been dedicated to the celebration of contemporary poetry and the creation of community around the art form. Previously, we have welcomed poets such as Terrance Hayes, Sharon Olds, Anne Carson, Kaveh Akbar, Tracy K. Smith, Donika Kelly, Claudia Rankine, Li-Young Lee, SLC’s very own Marie Howe, among many others. Our festival includes readings, panel discussions, generative sessions, craft talks, and more! We hope to see you there.
Free and open to the public, this year our festival will run from April 17 - 19th here on campus! For more information, please contact us at slcpoetryfest@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram (@slcpoetryfest). Register to attend.