About the poet: Evan Wang is the 2025 National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of Slow Burn (Northwestern University Press, 2026), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize and finalist for the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize. His work appears in POETRY Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Journal, RHINO, Sixth Finch, Waxwing, The Margins, and elsewhere, and has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry, NPR, and TEDx. Evan has earned invitations to perform at venues such as the U.S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, and the Miami Book Fair. He is the recipient of two National YoungArts Awards, a Scholastic National Gold Medal, the Coca-Cola Scholarship, and was a commended 2024 Foyle Young Poet of the Year. Evan serves as the editor-in-chief of Hominum Journal and the director of the Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program. Awarded the Joyful Abundance Emerging Artist Commissioning Award, he is currently working on creating a new choral piece premiering in June 2026 by the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia at Rodeph Shalom, the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. Evan will be attending Harvard University in the fall.

To view his poems in English and Russian, click here.

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