Join us for a public reading from Lanesboro area residents and Lanesboro Artist-in-Residence Su Hwang on Friday, May 5th at 7 p.m. at the St. Mane Theatre.
During this public reading event, the participants will be reading the work they got to craft alongside poet and artist-in-resident Su Hwang.
Su will be working on a special writing project as the Lanesboro Arts Artist in Residence from April 7th to May 5th, 2023. During her residency at Lanesboro Arts, Su Hwang will explore themes of place, belonging, othering, and our interconnectedness to one another and the natural world. Through informal, one-on-one interviews, broad-stroke lessons on the foundations of poetry, solo discovery walks (weather permitting), and community engagement to bridge personal and cultural divides through the power of poetry, participants will co-create a living chapbook anthology by writing a personal portrait exploring these themes and the people who call Lanesboro home.
About Su Hwang
Su Hwang (she/her) is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega (Milkweed Editions), which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised in New York then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest. A recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature, she is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and is the cofounder, with poet Sun Yung Shin, of Poetry Asylum. Su currently lives in Minneapolis. Su’s residency invites Lanesboro to consider the ideas of belonging, identity, and invasion through the creation of a poetry portrait living chapbook. She will gather inspiration for the chapbook through interviews and poetry workshops, where community members will be encouraged to create their own literary art. The residency will culminate in a public reading from these works.
Learn more about Su and her residency project by clicking here.
The Lanesboro Artist Residency Program is supported by the Jerome Foundation.
