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JUN
17
World Poetry Salon II:
Victoria Chang with yuniya edi kwon and Patricio Ferrari
Location
Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon, a new series presented in partnership with Limelight Poetry, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting world poetry. Each event features readings by a celebrated poet set to live music by a musician of the same cultural background.
This salon will feature a reading by poet Victoria Chang accompanied by musician yuniya edi kwon. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Chang's poetry during the reading. Following the reading, Chang will be interviewed by event host Patricio Ferrari.
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Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair/Little Brown in the U.K. It received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection and was named a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as longlisted for the National Book Award. Other recent books include The Trees Witness Everything and her nonfiction book, Dear Memory. She has written several children’s books as well. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
“Nikola Madzirov is one of the finest poets in Europe today! I admire his genius on every page of his poetry book. He is a visionary, a true poet whom all poetry lovers in the world should know. ”
Charles Simic
“Madzirov's poems are like Expressionist paintings: filled with thick, energetic streaks they seem to emerge from the imagination and to return to it right away, like night animals caught in the headlights of a car. “We are the remnants of another age” — Nikola Madzirov succeeds in convincing us. ”
Adam Zagajewski
“Nikola Madzirov's poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.”
Carolyn Forché
“I liked Madzirov's poetry immensely, its candour, its invention, its darkness. It is like discovering a new planet in the solar system of the imagination!”
Mark Strand
POET
yuniya edi kwon
yuniya edi kwon (b. 1989) is a violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary performance maker based in Lenapehoking, or New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, yuniya collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Holland Andrews, Tomeka Reid, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. Her work has been presented by Dia Art Foundation, Performa Biennial, New York Live Arts, Under The Radar Festival, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, On The Boards, Asia Society, Harlem Stage, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Monheim Triennale, and others. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in Composition, Creative Capital Awardee, Arts Fellow at Princeton University, Civitella Ranieri Fellow, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Awardee in Music/Sound, and United States Artists Ford Fellow.
MUSICIAN
Patricio Ferrari
Patricio Ferrari (polyglot poet, translator, editor) is an Argentine-Italian whose journey across continents and languages began at sixteen. He earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lisbon and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, where he transcribed selections of Fernando Pessoa’s unpublished English poetry. In 2025, he was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of Elsehere—a multilingual trilogy exploring how each language’s sounds, structures, and meanings shape identity. Ferrari calls this heterophony: the embodiment of another self through an adopted tongue. His translations for New Directions include works by Pessoa and Alejandra Pizarnik. He teaches in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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World Poetry Salon II
Victoria Chang with yuniya edi kwon and Patricio Ferrari
Photo by Peng Yu
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