A night of Poetry with John Yau

Wednesday, August 31, 6PM AT EDGEWOOD FARM

John Yau is a poet and fiction writer who has been publishing reviews and essays on art and literature since 1978. He is the publisher of Black Square Editions and cofounded the online magazine Hyperallergic Weekend. His most recent book of poems is Genghis Chan on Drums  (Omnidawn 202) His next book, Too Far to Write down will be publisghed by Omnidawn in the Fall of 2023. He curated the exhibition The Unseen Professors for Tina Kim Gallery, which focuses on the work of three Asian American sculptors working in New York in the 1960s and ‘70s (Leo Amino, John Pai, and Minoru Niizuma) and has finished a monograph on Joe Brainard, which Rizzoli will publish in 2022. He is the 2017 recipient of the Jackson Prize in Poetry and a 2021 recipient of a Rabkin Prize for art criticism. He teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and lives in New York.