Stanza is honored to host a conversation and reading between two legendary artists, Ruth Danon and John Yau.
Ruth Danon and John Yau have both made careers writing and teaching poetry at various respected universities, publishing nearly 60 books between the two of them. Both poets weave visual art into, through, and around their work: Danon teaches poetry as a studio art, and Yau is a renowned art critic and teacher, of whom Contemporary Poet said, “Yau’s poems [are] often as much a product of his visual sense of the world, as his awareness of his double heritage from both Oriental and Occidental cultures.”
Yau’s recent books include: Tell It Slant (Omnidawn, 2023) and Please Wait by the Coatroom:Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art (Black Sparrow, 2023).
Danon is the author of four books of poetry -- Turn Up The Heat (Nirala, 2023), Word Has It (Nirala, 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2016), and Triangulation From A Known Point (North Star Line, 1990). Her book of literary criticism, Work In The English Novel, was reissued by Routledge in 2020.
