The Harvard Department of English presents the Morris Gray Poetry Reading featuring Tina Chang. Join us at 6pm in the Thompson Room at 12 Quincy St. on Monday, November 3rd for a poetry reading from the author followed by a discussion with artist Hồng-Ân Trương, moderated by Professor Tracy K. Smith. This event will also be livestreamed below.
Tina Chang is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Hybrida (2019) and the forthcoming collection, LION (W.W. Norton, 2026). She is co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poetry,American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship, as well as awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, among others. In 2010, she was named the first female Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and she served in this role for over a decade. Graduate of Columbia University, she is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University.
Hồng-Ân Trương uses photography, video, and sound to explore immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. Her work has been shown at the ICP (NY), the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, NC), The Kitchen (NY), Nhà Sàn (Hanoi), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), the MCA Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art (NY). She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2019-2020, the Capp St. Artist in Residence at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in 2020, a MacDowell Residency Herb Alpert Fellow in 2022, and an artist-in-resident at Shandaken Storm King in 2023. Her writing has appeared most recently in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts edited by Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam (Paper Monument 2021), and in American Art in Asia: Artistic Practice and Theoretical Divergence, edited by Michelle Lim and Kyunghee Pyun (Routledge 2022). Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. Her most recent exhibition at island gallery in NY was reviewed by The New York Times. Hồng-Ân lives in Durham, North Carolina where she is an organizer and a teacher. She is a Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For a livestream of the reading, a link will be available at 5:30pm EDT on Monday, November 3rd 2025.