NEA Big Read Closing Celebration:Poetry Reading and Workshop with Cindy Juyoung Ok
Date: 04/12/2025
Time: 02:00 pm-04:00 pm
Location: The Brown Family Environmental Center, 9781 Laymon Road, Gambier
Organizer: Jamie Lyn Smith-Fletcher
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
jfletcher@knox.net
About the event:
Our NEA Big Read of “Interior Chinatown” concludes with a very special reading and generative workshop led by acclaimed poet Cindy Juyoung Ok. Cindy will lead participants through a series of prompts to write poems about place, celebrating our NEA Big Read theme, “Where We Live.” Bring something to write with, or on. The workshop is open to writers age 18+ and we’ll have a few complimentary copies of Cindy’s book, Ward Toward available while supplies last.
Cindy Juyoung Ok, author of Ward Toward, translator of The Hell of That Star, won the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Forward Prize in Poetry from the UK, and the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation.
This event is part of our NEA Big Read program celebrating Interior Chinatown and exploring the theme “Where We Live.” For more information about the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County’s NEA Big Read programs, visit www.knox.net, email knoxwrites1@gmail.com or call (740) 392-BOOK extension 8259.