2024-25 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Poet, Visiting Professor, and Princeton alumna Monica Youn, Class of 1993, will read from her work. Book signing will follow; books will be available for purchase through Labyrinth Books.

About the Poet:

Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From (Graywolf Press 2023), which was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Voelcker Award, and was longlisted for the PEN Jean Stein Award. From From was a New York Times Notable Book and Best Poetry Book of 2023 as well as being named a best book of the year by Time Magazine, NPR, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Her previous book, Blackacre, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award and the PEN Open Book Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was named a best poetry book of 2016 by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Paris Review. Her book Ignatz was also a finalist for the National Book Award.

Youn has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship. A former constitutional lawyer, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is professor of English at UC Irvine.