Meet Cathy Park Hong— National Poetry Month Featured Poet for April 13th
Cathy Park Hong’s book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings, was published in Spring 2020 by One World/Random House and Profile Books (UK). Minor Feelings is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. She is also the author of poetry collections Engine Empire, published in 2012 by W.W. Norton, Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her prose and poetry have been published in the New York Times, New Republic, the Guardian, Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of the New Republic and is a full professor at Rutgers-Newark University.
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Nathaniel Mackey and Cathy Park Hong with New York City high-school students — Talking about writing, being a writer, being a poet, inspiration (video)
Interview // Cathy Park Hong — “My first book of poems was at the age of 13, when I bought The Doors’ Jim Morrison’s book of poems. I was a real literary wunderkind…”
Poets & Writers Interview With Poet Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong on finding clarity through art & poetry within our political landscape (an article by Cathy Park Hong about the role of artists and poets in politics, written since the election of Donald Trump)
At Play in The Fields of Language: The Poetry of Cathy Park Hong
Poems On-Line:
Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins
Ballad of Infanticide, A Wreath of Hummingbirds (on the same page)
