Writers at Queens, the Queens College Reading Series presents a reading by New York State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn with a Q&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: bit.ly/3JOXkF7

Free and open to the public
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

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.

For more information, contact series director Nicole Cooley at [email protected] or visit qcenglish.commons.gc.cuny.edu/writers.