Franny Choi Poetry Reading

Schedule

Wed May 28 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Harris Hall 108 | Evanston, IL

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Come listen to poet Franny Choi read from their work, followed by a Q&A and book signing!
About this Event

Franny Choi Poetry Reading

Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Their books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Franny’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA and the founder of Brew & Forge. She has two books forthcoming: a collection of essays about robots, and an anthology, We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, co-edited with Terisa Siagatonu, No‘u Revilla, and Bao Phi. Franny is Faculty in Literature at Bennington College.

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Harris Hall 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, United States

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