Thursday, October 22, 2026, 5:30 pm
Joan Kwon Glass/The Aetna Poet-in-Residence Program
This event will be held virtually.
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Joan Kwon Glass is a Korean American poet, author of two poetry collections, including DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024) which won the Paterson Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry & was a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her first full-length collection, NIGHT SWIM (Diode Editions, 2022), won the Diode Book Prize. Joan's poems are forthcoming in Kenyon Review & The Offing & have been featured on NPR, Poetry Daily, Best American Poetry & The Slowdown & in Poetry, Passages North, Shenandoah, Terrain, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Split Lip, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, SWWIM & Prospect Street Writers House & has served as writer-in-residence at Wesleyan University & Amherst College. Joan lives teaches at writing centers around the country including Brooklyn Poets, Poets House, Writing Workshops & Hudson Valley Writers Center & has been featured at the Emily Dickinson Museum's Phosphorescence Series, the Boston Book Festival, MASS Poetry Festival, the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival & elsewhere. She lives in eastern Connecticut.
Sponsored by the Aetna Chair of Writing and the Creative Writing Program
For more information, contact: Kyle Labe at creativewriting@uconn.edu