UPCOMING EVENTS
Moderated conversation with Divya Victor, Barnard College, September 24, 2026.
“World in Transit: Conversation with Megha Mamjundar, Rachel Khong, and M Lin,” Brooklyn Book Festival, September 27, 2026.
Segue Reading Series: Ken Chen & Cici Wu with Ju Ly Ban, Reading honoring Theresa Cha, Artist Space, October 3, 2026.
PAST EVENTS
Lecture on anti-fascist literature, NYU MFA Paris, July, 2026.
Krisztina Tóth Discusses Eye of the Monkey with Ken Chen, Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center, Oct 21, 2025.
Brooklyn Public Library’s Book Prize Winners’ Panel with Ken Chen, Emet North and Mosab Abu Toha, Brooklyn Bookfest, September 21, 2026.
Post-Show Conversation for Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?), with Ed Lin, Deborah S. Craig, and Sung Rno, Public Theater, November 2, 2025.
Reading with Monica Youn, Cathy Park Hong, Adrian Matejka, NYU Paris, July 2025.
Launch for Sarah Rigg’s Lines with J. Mae Barizo, Bureau Gallery, May 21, 2025,
Marcia Douglas on The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive with Ken Chen, The Center for Fiction, May 7, 2025.
Conversation with Josephine Quinn at NYPL Cullman Center, September 10, 2024.
Three events at the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival: 1) Craft talk: “The Impasse of Contemporary Poetry and is Surrealism the Answer?”; 2) Panel: “Poetry, Politics and Activism” with Sarah Aziza, Chase Berggrun, Ken Chen, Mohammed Zenia; 3) Evening reading: Sarah Aziza, Chase Berggrun, Ken Chen, Ghinwa Jawhari, imogen xtian smith, Mohammed Zenia. Brooklyn Poets, May 26, 2024.
Joyelle McSweeney and Olga Ravn, Barnard College, April 16, 2024.
Moderated conversation with Diana Khoi Nguyen & Cindy Juyong Ok, Books Are Magic, February 29, 2024.
Conversation with Ha Jin, Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center, January 25, 2024.
Introduction to Jhumpa Lahiri event with Brandon Taylor, Barnard College, October 11, 2023.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Memoirs by Rojas Contreras, Sinclair & Lopate with Ken Chen, Brooklyn Book Festival, Oct 1 2023.
Seavey Visiting Writers Series at Susquehanna University. March 28, 2023.
“Experimental Plant Life” featuring Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Desiree Bailey at Barnard. 23 March 2023.
‘100% authentic fake:’ Corky Lee’s Asian America, with Ken Chen. Guest on Time to Say Goodbye podcast with E. Tammy Kim and Jay Caspian Kang. 8 March 2023.
Moderated conversation with Hua Hsu at New York Public Library Cullman Center. November 15, 2022.
First Mondays reading with Sara Jane Stoner and Rabih Alameddine for Sarah Schulman at Performance Space, November 7, 2022.
Introducing Annie Ernaux at Barnard. November 4, 2022.
Moderated event at the Brooklyn Book Festival featuring Xochitl Gonzalez, Jordan Castro, and Lydia Conklin (10/2/22).
Conversation with Qian Julie Wang. Museum of City of New York. May 9, 2022.
Whiting Foundation & Brooklyn Public Library: Philip Gourevitch, Meghan O’Rourke, Salamishah Tillet, and Albert Samaha (2022).
Brooklyn Book Festival: Event for Jonathan Lee, Danielle Evans, Rivka Galchen (2021).
Vermont College of Fine Arts reading with Ruben Quesada, Rebecca Wurth, Megan Fernandes and Youmna Chlala, April 16, 2021.
Brooklyn Public Library: Book launch for Laura Raicovich’s Culture Strike (2021).
Lana Turner journal roundtable on 21st century poetry, April 17, 2021.
City of Asylum: conversation with Gina Apostol (2021).
July 27, 2020. Zoom Wild Nights – Wild Nights! The Emily Dickinson Cocktail. I’m reading and discussing an Emily Dickinson poem for Future Poems on Zoom.
MORE SELECTED PAST EVENTS
December 14, 2019. Artists on the News: Selections from Creative Time Reports. With Marisa Mazria-Katz and Laura Raicovich for the launch of Artists on the News. Printed Matter.
November 6, 2019. Celebrating New Asian American Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. With Sally Wen Mao.
October 22, 2019. Yale Younger Poets Reading at McNally Jackson.
September 22, 2019. N+1 Paper Monument Launch Panel at the New York Art Book Fair. Launch for the publication of As Radical, As Mother, As Salad, As Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now? with Chloë Bass, Lori Cole, and moderator Roger White.
July 24-26, 2019. Poet-in-Residence, Incubator for Community-Engaged Poets, Organized by Crescendo Literary (Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall) and The Poetry Foundation.
March 17, 2019. Marathon Reading of Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Performance Space. Co-organized by Ken Chen and Sarah Schulman with numerous readers.
February 20, 2019. Re-Stating the Union, ICP Museum. With Dread Scott, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, Maya Binyam, Avram Finkelstein, Katie Pearl, Michele Pred, Amy Khoshbin, Sonia Guiñansaca, Melanie Crean, and Demian DinéYazhi.
September 16, 2018. NBF Presents: 2017 National Book Awards Showcase, Brooklyn Book Festival. Moderator for conversation with Masha Gessen, Min Jin Lee, Shane McCrae, and Erika L. Sánchez. Presented by the National Book Foundation.
September 16, 2018. Brooklyn Book Festival. “Love and Homelands” panel with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Amitava Kumar, and Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar.
April 3, 2018, 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Double Take 24, Apex Art. With Todd Colby, Elaine Equi, and Soyoung Yoon. Apex Art, 291 Church Street, NYC.
May 4, 2018. Out of Place Symposium Panel, The Poetry Project. With Julie Ezelle Patton, Anne Waldman, Rachel Zucker, and moderator Erica Hunt.
March 3, 2018. More Than A Manifesto: The Poet’s Essay, Columbia University. With Anais Duplan, Ariel Goldberg, Myung Mi Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Tracie Morris, Cecilia Vicuña, and Fred Moten. Organized by Dorothea Lasky for the Lensfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University.
Apr 9, 2017. Perspectives on Race and Representation: An Evening with the Racial Imaginary Institute at the Whitney Museum of Art. With Elizabeth Alexander, Christopher Benson, LeRonn P. Brooks, Malik Gaines, Lyle Ashton Harris, Terrance Hayes, Ajay Kurian, Christopher Y. Lew, Casey Llewellyn, Mia Locks, Claudia Rankine, Sarah Schulman, Christina Sharpe, and Herb Tam.
March 15, 2017. Conversation with Min Jin Lee, The Tenement Museum.
November 9, 2016. Trump’s America and Anti-Fascist Organizing, organized by Verso Books. With Muna Mire, Bhaskar Sunkara, John Nichols, Donna Murch, and Maryam Jamshidi.
September 17, 2016. Poetry on Art: Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event, curated by Poetry magazine. With Elaine Equi, Paolo Javier, and Fred Sasaki. Knockdown Center.
April 1, 2016. The NEA Turns 50: Celebrating a Half-Century of Support for Literature in America, organized by the National Endowment for the Arts. With Amy Stolls, Fiona McCrae, Luis Alberto Urrea, Natasha Trethewey.
December 1, 2015. Liu Xia Tribute Reading, curated by Pen America. With Nick Flynn, Tina Chang, and Ming Di. Bookcourt.
May 28, 2015. Poetry By The Sea Conference. With Afaa Weaver.
February 16, 2015. Reading at Saint Mark’s Poetry Project with Sinan Antoon.
November 2, 2014. Reading with Cynthia Cruz, McNally Jackson.
September 21, 2014. Brooklyn Book Festival. Moderator for conversation with Jonathan Lethem and Jules Feiffer. St. Francis College Auditorium.
November 7, 2013. Yet Do I Marvel: Black Iconic Poets of the 20th Century, curated by the Poetry Society of America. With Ross Gay, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Susan Wheeler, Cornelius Eady, Camille Rankine, Sapphire, Nikky Finney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, CK Williams, Toi Derricotte, Gerald Stern, Nathalie Handal, Michael Dickman.
October 25, 2013. “The Poetic Impulse,” Poets Forum, Academy of American Poets. With Lia Purpura.
Thursday, October 10, 2013. Guernica and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Race in Publishing Discussion Series: Non Fiction Edition Jamilah King, Kiese Laymon, Ken Chen & Lisa Lucas.
September 22, 2013. Brooklyn Book Festival. Moderator for event with Fiona Maazel, Jonathan Dee, and Lore Segal.
October 20, 2012. Monet to Mallarmé Salon Series, curated by the Poetry Society of America and the New York Botanical Gardens. With Mary Ann Caws, Richard Howard, and Timothy Donnelly.
March 22, 2012. Poetry as Activism, Activism as Poetry: Poetic Interventions in the Public Sphere, Split This Rock! Poetry Festival. With Jennifer Karmin, Philip Metres, Mark Nowak, and Jonathan Skinner.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Reading for Juvenilia for A/P/A Institute at NYU.
May 25, 2010. Stanford Asian American Writers Series. With Sarah Gambito. Stanford University.
