We bring you a breathtaking evening of poetry by newcomers Rosanna Young Oh, Rachel Mannheimer, Carlie Hoffman, and Anna Rose Welch. Each has been recognized for the depth and lyricism of their poetry, while carving out their place in contemporary literary culture. Words like “astonishing,” “elegant,” “beguiling,” and “elegaic” describe the works you will hear at this very special event.
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Rosanna Young Oh is a Korean American poet and essayist who was born in Daejeon, Korea, and grew up on Long Island. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Best New Poets, Harvard Review Online, Blackbird, The Hopkins Review, and 32 Poems, and has received honors that include scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and New York State Writers Institute. Her poetry was also the subject of a solo exhibition at the Queens Historical Society, where she was an artist-in-residence. A graduate of Yale, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she lives and writes in New York. The Corrected Version is her first book.
“Rosanna Young Oh’s brilliant first collection of poems, The Corrected Version, is the best kind of poetry—fresh, ambitious, sardonic, wise, bittersweet, efficient with edges—the kind that says I am worth paying attention to. Trust me, reader, Oh is that and more.” — Dave Smith, author of Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry
Rachel Mannheimer was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as a literary scout and on the editorial staff of The Yale Review. Her first book, Earth Room, was selected by Louise Glück as the inaugural winner of the Changes Book Prize and published in April 2022.
“This is that rare work that is both profoundly alert to its historical moment and also, in the questions it entertains and the magnitude of its intent, timeless. It seems to me a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves.” —Louise Glück
Carlie Hoffman lives in Brooklyn and is the author of When There Was Light and one previous collection of poetry, This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the NCPA Gold Award in poetry and finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A poet and translator, her honors include a “Discovery” / Boston Review prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. Carlie is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal.
"I am in awe of the way in which in Carlie Hoffman’s poetry image and word espouse themselves, braid each other into not a surrealist image, but into what Jerome Rothenberg once called a "deep image." This comes from a very clear-eyed, deep-eared stillness she is able to work from even if or when at the center of this / her world’s turmoil." —Pierre Joris
Anna Rose Welch is the author of We, The Almighty Fires, winner of the 2016 Alice James Award. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Best New Poets, Guernica Annual, and Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems (Orison Books 2023), as well as in The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Adroit Journal, The Paris-American, and other journals. Her work received an honorable mention in the 2020 Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Erie, PA where she is the chief editor of a pharmaceutical publication, a violinist with the Erie Philharmonic, and a (very) amateur ballerina.
“Anna Rose Welch’s We, the Almighty Fires is a testament to poetry’s ability to render the body’s erasure through verbal beauty and grace. There is a keen attention to music in these poems—a crafting of sound as sturdy as an ark in a biblical flood and as obsessive as the water’s recursive singing. Sensual and smart, Welch’s debut collection blazes with wild splendor.” —Eugene Gloria