Visit the beautiful Poets House library and public space overlooking the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan, where Princeton alumni poets Catherine Barnett '82, Dana A. Isokawa '10, and Monica Youn '93 will share their work and discuss their careers. Dinner provided.

This event is part of Arts At Work: NYC, a summer series of arts performances and showcases, panel discussion, and site visits that introduce students working in New York City during the summer months to creative alumni and the various arts institutions they serve.

Free and open to all Princeton students (including Class of 2024).

Please note:

• Tickets are limited. You will receive an email to confirm your registration before the event. If you do not confirm by the indicated date, your spot will go to someone on the waitlist. Please honor your registration.
• Students are responsible for their transportation.
• Registrants will be sent specific locations and logistics closer to the event date. 
• Sign up for the waitlist if registration becomes full.
   

Catherine Barnett '82 is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004); The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; Human Hours (Graywolf, 2018); and Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (Graywolf Press, 2024). Her poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." She teaches at New York University and Hunter College and works as an independent editor. She lives in New York City.

Dana A. Isokawa '10 is a poet and editor. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and Narrative. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Hambidge Center.  Isokawa is a contributing editor of Poets & Writers Magazine and the editor in chief of The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. While at MacDowell, she drafted poems to include in her first poetry manuscript, Indirect Objects. Poems from the manuscript have been published or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and the Southern Review.

Monica Youn '93 is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award and the PEN Open Book Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award, as well as being named one of the best poetry collections of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post and BuzzFeed. Her previous book Ignatz (Four Way Books 2010) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, among other awards. She is a member of the curatorial group The Racial Imaginary Institute. The daughter of Korean immigrants and a former lawyer, she was raised in Houston, Texas, and now lives in New York.