Joan Kwon Glass, Paterson Poetry Prize Winner Reading

From the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey, a reading by Joan Kwon Glass. She is a diasporic, mixed-race, Korean American poet, author of the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024), which won the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2025 Balcones Poetry Prize. Her book, NIGHT SWIM, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems have been featured on NPR & in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Best American Poetry, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She has been a featured reader at the Westchester Poetry Festival, the Boston Book Festival & MASS Poetry & is a 2025 SWWIM writer in residence. Joan has served or is scheduled to serve as a visiting writer at Amherst College, Smith College, Wesleyan University, The New School, West Chester University, UCONN & elsewhere. She teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets, Poets House & Hudson Valley Writers Center & lives in Milford, CT.