Fourth Saturdays on Wednesday: Jennifer Chang
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This month, we’re hosting a special Wednesday night reading in collaboration with Claremont Graduate University's Tufts Poetry Awards program, featuring Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Jennifer Chang.
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Believer, Best American Poetry 2012 and 2022, Georgia Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, A Public Space, and Yale Review. Her essays on poetry and poetics, race, and culture have appeared in Blackwell’s Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Margins, New Literary History, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, and The Volta. She is the poetry editor of New England Review and teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. Chang won the 2026 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for An Authentic Life (Copper Canyon Press); that book has also been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Please note this event will take place in our alternative location, the Louise Roberts Room at the Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 W. Harrison Ave.
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines.
The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
www.claremontlibrary.org
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Believer, Best American Poetry 2012 and 2022, Georgia Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, A Public Space, and Yale Review. Her essays on poetry and poetics, race, and culture have appeared in Blackwell’s Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Margins, New Literary History, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, and The Volta. She is the poetry editor of New England Review and teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. Chang won the 2026 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for An Authentic Life (Copper Canyon Press); that book has also been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Please note this event will take place in our alternative location, the Louise Roberts Room at the Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 W. Harrison Ave.
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines.
The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
www.claremontlibrary.org
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Claremont United Church of Christ, 261 E Harrison, Claremont, CA 91711, United States
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