Poetry reading/discussion with Sandra Lim and James Shea
Join us for a poetry reading and discussion with poets/professors Sandra Lim and James Shea,
Hosted by Professor Loren Goodman
Friday, May 22, 12:00 – 12:50 pm, Daewoo Hall Annex room 105, Sinchon Campus, Yonsei University
Sandra Lim is the author of three poetry collections: The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021), The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her next book of poems, The Givens, is forthcoming in 2027 from W.W. Norton. Lim’s honors include the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, The New Republic, and elsewhere. In 2023, she was named Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Born in Seoul, Korea, she lives in Cambridge, MA.
James Shea is the author of Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud (Black Ocean), a collection of contemporary Japanese haiku by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He is the director of the International Writers’ Workshop at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), where he also directs HKBU’s bilingual creative writing program. He has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council.
