Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and World’s Borough Bookstore for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An!
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Mila Jao Barry is a poet, hand-cut printmaker, and community arts organizer. Her poems have appeared in The Harvard Advocate, Pigeon Pages, and more. Raised by the ocean, they are happiest when with loved ones at the shore or on the marsh. This spring, Mila will graduate with a degree in English from Harvard College, where she researches Emily Dickinson as well as contemporary poetics.
Stine An (안수연) is a Korean American poet, literary translator, and performer based in Queens whose interdisciplinary work explores diasporic poetics, experimental translation, K-pop, and virtual performance. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard College and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025) and Comet and Star: A Story of Cosmic Friendship, written by the musician and composer Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (Enchanted Lion Books, 2024), and her debut poetry collection B-Dragon Suite is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2026.
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COMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY
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