In Conversation: Sun Yung Shin & Chaun Webster

Join us July 19 for an In Conversation featuring poets Sun Yung Shin & Chaun Webster. They will talk about writing, Minneapolis, and more.

About Sun Yung Shin

신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is a Korean-born poet, freelance writer, librettist, community educator, and speaker. She is the award-winning author of poetry collections The Wet Hex; Unbearable Splendor (poetry/essays); Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black. She is the editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family; and co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. She is the author of Cooper’s Lesson, a bilingual Korean/English picture book, and is a co-author of the picture book Where We Come From. Forthcoming publications include Revolutions are Made of Love, a picture book about Detroit-based philosophers and movement activists Grace Lee Boggs and James Boggs, and other projects. She lives in Minneapolis with her family. More at sunyungshin.com

About Chaun Webster

Chaun Webster (he/him) is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing, of the english language, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster’s debut book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Webster’s work has appeared in Obsidian, The Rumpus, Here Poetry Journal, Ploughshares and Mn Artists, and his second collection Wail Song: wading in the water at the end of the world, was published by Black Ocean in April 2023.