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Please join Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program 5:00PM Wednesday, May 28 (Harris 108) for a poetry reading, Q&A, and book signing with Franny Choi!

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.

Space is limited, so please RSVP here to reserve your ticket through EventBrite: https://bit.ly/nufrannychoi

Following the Q&A, there will be a book signing line. Evanston's Bookends & Beginnings will provide copies of Franny's books for sale before and after the event.