Up and coming poet to read work at UA
Mary DeLoney
Issue date: 11/12/08 Section: Lifestyles
Poet Jennifer Chang, author of "The History of Anonymity," is scheduled to read from her work 7 p.m. tomorrow in Room 218 of Willard J. Walker Hall, located in the Sam Walton College of Business.
Chang "is an exciting young poet, a rising star in the literary world," said Davis McCombs, director of the creative writing program.
"The History of Anonymity" is Chang's first book of poems. It was an inaugural selection of the Virginia Quarterly Review Poetry Series for the University of Georgia Press.
"The creative writing program brings three Walton Visiting Writers to campus each semester, a poet, a fiction writer and a translator," McCombs said. "The faculty members take turns choosing. This fall, I chose Jennifer Chang."
Chang's poems have appeared or will be appearing in the Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily, A Public Space and several other publications. Chang is a 2008 Virginia Commission of the Arts Fellow in Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
She is the chair of the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization that promotes Asian-American poetry based in New York City. Chang taught creative writing at Rutgers University.
She now lives in Charlottesville, Va., with her husband, poet Aaron Baker, and is a Commonwealth Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia.
A crowd of about 50 to 100 people is expected at this event. There will be a reception following Chang's reading.
Chang "is an exciting young poet, a rising star in the literary world," said Davis McCombs, director of the creative writing program.
"The History of Anonymity" is Chang's first book of poems. It was an inaugural selection of the Virginia Quarterly Review Poetry Series for the University of Georgia Press.
"The creative writing program brings three Walton Visiting Writers to campus each semester, a poet, a fiction writer and a translator," McCombs said. "The faculty members take turns choosing. This fall, I chose Jennifer Chang."
Chang's poems have appeared or will be appearing in the Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily, A Public Space and several other publications. Chang is a 2008 Virginia Commission of the Arts Fellow in Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
She is the chair of the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization that promotes Asian-American poetry based in New York City. Chang taught creative writing at Rutgers University.
She now lives in Charlottesville, Va., with her husband, poet Aaron Baker, and is a Commonwealth Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia.
A crowd of about 50 to 100 people is expected at this event. There will be a reception following Chang's reading.
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