This remote New Works event featuring poets Emilie Menzel, Ellen Kombiyil & Joan Kwon Glass will dive into the intersections of femininity, haunting & what it means to tell a story of trauma. 

Joan Kwon Glass‘s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms (Perugia Press, 2024) is a poignant exploration of diasporic longing, inherited trauma, and resilience, weaving together history, identity, and survival across continents and generations to confront the complexities of hunger—both literal and metaphorical—in the search for belonging.

A haunting and lyrical exploration of grief and transformation, The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024) blurs the boundaries between poetry and fable, weaving a mesmerizing tale of embodiment, trauma, and the myths we create to rewrite our histories. Emilie Menzel‘s debut is a visceral, spellbinding journey into the wild and untamed spaces of language, where the body becomes both story and home.

In Love as Invasive Species, (Cornerstone Press, 2024) Ellen Kombiyil masterfully unearths the silent burdens passed through generations of women—shame, desire, and societal expectation—transforming them into a lyrical act of resistance and reclamation.