Writers’ Workshop graduates Steven Duong and Tramaine Suubi will read from their new poetry collections: At the End of the World There Is a Pond, and Phases.

Steven Duong will read from At the End of the World There Is a Pond. “In poems striking, humorous, and assured, Steven Duong turns and turns the world over again until we are seen anew. . . . The velocity and music of this book will steady you far into your days.” —Major Jackson

“Duong’s poetry is surprising and alive, expansive in its treatment of longing, history, and what it means to render art from experience.”― Raven Leilani

Steven Duong’s poems have appeared in publications including American Poetry Review, Guernica, and the Yale Review, and his short fiction is featured in Catapult, The Drift, and The Best American Short Stories 2024. The recipient of fellowships and awards from Kundiman, the Academy of American Poets, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a creative writing fellow in poetry at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta.

Tramaine Suubi will read from Phases. “Suubi’s debut collection boldly negotiates the moon’s phases, love, and the cycles of lives connected across generations. The collection’s opening quote from Audre Lorde, concluding with, “I feel therefore I can be free,” establishes a north star for the reader. The poems that follow lay bare the experiences of desire, longing, rejection, grief, and healing. Within the slim, quick lines and lyric form, there’s a shift from piece to piece, revealing more or something different with each turn…While the poems are immediate and vulnerable, there’s a historical memory here, too, and responsibility to the future… Suubi’s voice and the music of Phases will resonate with many.” —Booklist

Tramaine Suubi is a quadrilingual multi-hyphenate Bantu writer hailing from Kampala. They are a graduate of Wheaton College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yellow Arrow Writer-in-Residence, and the 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop. Suubi is the editor of Writivism magazine, and their poems have appeared in Brink Literary Magazine and Solstice Literary Magazine, among other publications.