S5:E25 Joan Kwon Glass Talks to Dion O'Reilly

Joan Kwon Glass zooms into the Hive to talk about her new book. We also read and discuss Laura Apol's poem "Instructions for the Friends Who Are Sorting my Daughter's Things this Afternoon." Joan Kwon Glass is the mixed-race, Korean American author of Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022), and three chapbooks (How To Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy, If Rust Can Grow on the Moon, and Bloodline). She serves as poet laureate for Milford, CT, Editor in Chief for Harbor Review and is a Brooklyn Poets Mentor. Joan is an instructor on the faculty of various writing centers including the Hudson Valley Writers Center, Brooklyn Poets & Corporeal. Her poems appear in Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, The Slowdown and elsewhere. She is available for manuscript consultations, readings and workshops. Content warning: Discussion of suicide.