Jeffrey Yang Reading

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Join us for a reading by Jeffrey Yang:

Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light; Hey, Marfa; Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Bei Dao’s long poem, Sidetracks and autobiography, City Gate, Open Up; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies; Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile; Su Shi’s East Slope, and an anthology of classical Chinese poems, Rhythm 226. He is the editor of the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief, a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry and prose, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle, and an expanded edition of Mary Oppen’s Meaning a Life: An Autobiography. He works as the editor-at-large for New Directions Publishing and as a freelance editor for New York Review Books. - https://www.twintiersymca.org/Downloads/dwcspring2024readings.pdf

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 8:00pm
Dey House
Frank Conroy Reading Room
507 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
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