Poetry Days Presents An Evening with Victoria Chang at Boston College on October 28 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Chang’s most recent book of poems, Tree of Knowledge, is a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry. Her previous works of poetry include The Trees Witness Everything and With My Back to the World, which received the Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry, was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the PEN Jean/Stein Book Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. Another book of poems, OBIT, was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Latvian, German, Romanian, and Dutch. Chang is the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair at Georgia Tech and director of the Poetry@Tech program. The event, free and open to the public, is cosponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series and the Asian American Studies Program. Advance registration is required.
Poet Victoria Chang
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