Join Us for the 2025 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalists’ Reading and find out the winner!
Saturday, September 13, 8 pm ET / Sunday, September 14, 8 am MYT
RSVP: bit.ly/finalist-reading-25
77 Chinese Dreams, by Timothy Yu (USA)
Timothy Yu is the author of the poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences, recently reissued by punctum books, as well as two scholarly books, Diasporic Poetics and Race and the Avant-Garde. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, Fence, and The New Republic.
Edgewise, by Marie La Viña (Philippines/USA)
Marie La Viña is a Filipina American writer. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, and her work has appeared in Prelude and MoMA Magazine. Her honors include a fellowship from Kundiman and prizes from the Palanca Awards and the Poetry Society of America.
Minor Destructions, by Mark Kyungsoo Bias (South Korea/USA)
Mark Kyungsoo Bias’ work appears in AGNI, New England Review, Georgia Review, Narrative, The Adroit Journal, and other venues. He has received honors and awards from The Academy of American Poets, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House, and Kundiman, and holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
salt the flowers, by Eliza Dzulkafli (Malaysia)
Eliza Dzulkafli is a recipient of the Piri Thomas Poetry Prize, administered by the Academy of American Poets, and the author of INKLESS, BUT ALRIGHT, STILL. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in The Evergreen Review, Vellichor Literary, Bitter Baby Zine, and elsewhere.
Unsayable, by Maung Htike Aung (Myanmar)
Maung Htike Aung is a Burmese-based poet and literary translator. His poems and translation have appeared in the Portside Review, Wasafiri, the Temz Review, Mekong Review, Consequence, and forthcoming in SUSPECT.
Judge Eric Gamalinda will introduce all five finalists and announce the winner.
Eric Gamalinda was born in the Philippines and lives in New York City, where he teaches at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is the author of several books of poetry and fiction published in the Philippines and the US, including the poetry collections Zero Gravity, winner of the Asian American Literary Award, and Amigo Warfare, a new edition of which was recently published by Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Come hear these terrific Anglophone poets from across the world!
The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize is awarded annually to an unpublished manuscript of original Anglophone poetry by an author of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world. The winner receives USD1,500.00 and book publication in the US and Singapore.
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