A Reading by NYS Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn

WRITERS AT QUEENS
THE QUEENS COLLEGE READING SERIES
presents
A Reading by
NYS Poet Laureate
Kimiko HahnQ&A facilitated by Sonia Arora
Co-sponsored by Asian American Community Studies (AACS),
Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP), and
the Queens College School of Arts
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 7 pm
LeFrak Concert Hall
Join us on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3JOXkF7

Kimiko Hahn is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Ghost Forest: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024) which plays with given forms while creating new ones, and, in doing so, honors past writers. Previous books Foreign Bodies, Toxic Flora, and Brain Fever were prompted by fields of science; The Narrow Road to the Interior takes its title and forms from Basho’s famous journals. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the American Poetry Review.
In 2023, Hahn was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, American Book Award, and NEA Fellowships. In her service to the field, she enjoys promoting chapbooks and has created a chapbook archive at the Queens College Library. She will serve as New York State Poet from 2025 to 2027. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
For more information, contact series director Nicole Cooley at writersatqueens@qc.cuny.edu
or visit qcenglish.commons.gc.cuny.edu/writers