Reading Migrations, Asian America, and Creativity
Pushcart-nominated Khmer poet, writer and musician Sokunthary Svay will offer a reading of her literature.
About the Speaker
Sokunthary Svay is a Cambodian poet, essayist and librettist from New York City. A founding member of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA), she has received fellowships from the American Opera Project, Poets House, Willow Books, and CUNY, as well as commissions from Washington National Opera, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Chautauqua Institution, and ISSUE Project Room. She is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and a lecturer at CCNY in Harlem. Author of a poetry collection and three opera libretti, her hybrid memoir, Put It on Record: A Memoir-Archive, is now available from Willow Books.
This program is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice.