Kundiman New Books Reading: Stine An, Noah Arhm Choi (in honor of Theo LeGro), Benedict Nguyễn, and Bobuq Sayed 

A reading by Stine An, Noah Arhm Choi (in honor of Theo LeGro), Benedict Nguyễn, and Bobuq Sayed  followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Co-sponsored with Kundiman, a national organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American creative writing.

Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here

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The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is not currently wheelchair accessible.

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Stine An is a Korean American poet, literary translator, and performer based in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more. Her poems and translations have appeared in Best American Experimental Writing, Best Literary Translations, Electric Literature, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. Her publications include S_MMER CR_SH (2025), Winter Night Rabbit Worries (2026) and Today’s Morning Vocabulary (2025) by South Korean poet Yoo Heekyung, and B-Dragon Suite (forthcoming September 2026), which won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Find her at @gregorspamsa and http://www.gregorspamsa.com. (Photo via Kundiman)

Noah Arhm Choi is the author of Cut to Bloom, winner of the 2019 Jack McCarthy Prize. A Lambda Literary Poet-In-Residence and Valentines Editor for Honey Literary, they received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, and their work appears in The Adroit Journal, Split this Rock, The Rumpus, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Noah was shortlisted for the Poetry International Prize and received the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize, alongside fellowships from Kundiman, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. They serve on the Kundiman Board of Trustees and currently work at NYU Metro Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.  A K-12 educator of fifteen years, they work to embolden the intersection of education, activism, and the arts. (Photo via Kundiman)

Theo LeGro was a queer Vietnamese-American poet and both a Kundiman Mentorship Lab Fellow and Kundiman Retreat Fellow. Their debut, Don’t Let It Kill You, was the winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry from Persea Books. Their work appeared in Blood Orange Review, Brooklyn Poets, diode poetry journal, Honey Literary, Plume, The Offing, Raleigh Review, and other publications. They lived in Brooklyn and died on March 6, 2026 from breast cancer.

Benedict Nguyễn is a freelance dancer and creative producer. Her writing on labor and culture has appeared in The Baffler, BOMB, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vanity Fair, among other publications. She appeared in the short film “Don’t F*ck with Bà” (2024, dir. Sally Tran) and is producing projects with Will Rawls and Alethea Pace. She’s the author of the [redacted] freelance labor zine nasty notes (2022) and the novel Hot Girls with Balls (Catapult 2025), an ABA Indie Next Pick. (Photo by Cirsty Burton)

Bobuq Sayed is a queer cultural worker of the Afghan diaspora. In 2024, they published the chapbook A Brief History of Australian Terror and, in 2026, their debut novel, No God But Us, was released worldwide. They are a Kundiman fellow, a former Steinbeck fellow at San José State University, a Lambda Literary Scholar, and an organizer for Third World liberation. (Photo via Kundiman)