Tuesday 11th November 2025, 6:00pm-7.30pm – Lawson Lecture Room
Jennifer Soong’s recent books of poetry include My Earliest Person (The Last Books, 2025), Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024), and Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (Black Sun Lit, 2022). In addition to her poetry, she has published essays in Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, and Post45, among others. In 2025, the University of Chicago Press published her monograph Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting, which explores the relationship between poetic composition in the twentieth century and forms of non-remembrance. Originally from New Jersey, she is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Denver.