Award-winning poet featured in fall Frostic Reading Series

Contact: Mark Schwerin
Photo of Cathy Park Hong.

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KALAMAZOO, Mich.—An award-winning poet will be featured in the next installment of the fall 2016 Gwen Frostic Reading Series at Western Michigan University.

Cathy Park Hong, an associate professor at Sarah Lawrence College and poetry editor of The New Republic, will read from her works at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in 157-159 Bernhard Center. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Cathy Park Hong

Hong is the author of "Engine Empire," "Dance Dance Revolution" and "Translating Mo'um," She has received the Barnard Women Poets Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship.

Hong also is the recipient of a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Poetry, Paris Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, APR, Harvard Review, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. She also is a regular faculty member at the Queens University of Charlotte Master of Fine Arts program in Charlotte, North Carolina.

About the Frostic Reading Series

The Frostic Reading Series presents acclaimed creative writers from across the nation and beyond. Every year, a diverse range of readings that encompasses poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama attract both campus and off-campus audiences.

For more information, visit wmich.edu/english/events/frostic.

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