Faculty Accomplishments

Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Shenandoah literary magazine, selecting poems by Majda Gama as the winner and by Desiree Santana as the runner-up. https://shenandoahliterary.org/732/in-great-aunt-noors-salon/

Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Academy of American Poets Jean Burden Poetry Prize at the University of Redlands.

Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Speaker, “On Traversals: A Folio on Walking.” Visiting Writers Series, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, February 22, 2024. https://www.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/college-of-arts-and-sciences/undergraduate-studies/creative-writing/visiting-writers-series/

Anna Maria Hong emceed a reading by contributors to Traversals: A Folio on Walking at the Poetic Research Bureau and 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, CA on February 21, 2024. https://www.poeticresearch.com/events/traversals-a-folio-on-walking

Hong, A. M. (2023) Invited Speaker, “How to Live. What to Do: An Episodic Primer.” 2023 Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens, Hartford, CT, November 4, 2023. https://stevenspoetry.org/2023/09/26/2023-wallace-stevens-birthday-bash/

Anna Maria Hong presented on the “Avenues of Creative Scholarship” roundtable with Suzanne Churchill, Lesley Wheeler, Walt Hunter, and Tavi González at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Brooklyn, NY on October 26, 2023. https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2023/schedules/MSA_Streets_Program_WEB.pdf

Anna Maria Hong presented on the “Location, Origin and Diasporas” roundtable with Basie Allen at the Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival at Wheaton College in Norton, MA on October 14, 2023. https://wheatoncollege.edu/event/many-voices/

Anna Maria Hong emceed the launch of Traversals: A Folio on Walking at the Room Project in Detroit, MI with co-editor Christine Hume and writers Petra Kuppers, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Caryl Pagel on September 29, 2023.

Anna Maria Hong read at The Brooklyn Rail’s The New Social Environment series with visual artist Gala Porras-Kim and art critic Jonathan T.D. Neil on August 18, 2023: https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/08/18/gala-porras-kim-the-weight-of-a-patina-of-time/

Anna Maria Hong read and taught a workshop on 21st-century sonnets at West Chester University’s C.R.A.F.T. Poetry and Creative Arts Festival on June 10–11, 2023 in West Chester, PA.