monsteryoun 윤영나

Author of FROM FROM (2023) & BLACKACRE (2016), IGNATZ (2010) & BARTER (2003). @graywolfpress @fourwaybooks Lapsed lawyer @brennancenter. Daughter of immigrants.

[Nancy Kricorian @nancykric]

“I think pretty much all of the writers I have talked to are in agreement that PEN has lost the trust of the literary community, and it can’t function effectively until there is a change of leadership.”
@MonicaYoun via @lithub

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[Esther Allen @estherlallen]

"At this point, I think pretty much all of the writers I have talked to are in agreement that PEN has really lost the trust of the literary community, and it can’t function effectively until there is a change of leadership."

Thanks, @MonicaYoun. Agreed.

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Following the cancellation of PEN America’s annual literary awards ceremony as well as its World Voices Festival, acclaimed poet @MonicaYoun joins @Wsterrell and @V_V_G to talk about political protests and literary prizes.
@lithubradio @lithub https://t.co/8IEW5hiDsx

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

how should I define the limits of my concern the boundary between mine and not-mine

—Monica Youn

https://t.co/Q6U60Hmx29

[monsteryoun 윤영나 @MonicaYoun]

@likaluca Love you!!!

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Completely unhinged pigs at UC Irvine. Shameful that school administration would call these people in to attack their students:

[James J. Zogby @jjz1600]

Hundreds of police in riot gear converge on campus of UC Irvine. Watching the video, I was reminded of violent police crackdowns in totalitarian states. Now it’s happening in city after city by battle ready police, trained in Israel, arresting & beating students for free speech.

[Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs]

Law enforcement officers tackle and violently detain pro-Palestinian student protesters at UC Irvine, while other officers aim less-lethal munitions into a crowd.

Video by Jon Putnam, @jonp_photo_ on Instagram.

[Nancy Kricorian @nancykric]

While everyone is rightly dunking on @PENamerica leadership, I’d like to give a shoutout to hardworking, principled staff, especially the members of @united_PEN who have been fighting for a contract for 18 months.

[monsteryoun 윤영나 @MonicaYoun]

@PKhakpour I'm not sure whether yr info is correct

[monsteryoun 윤영나 @MonicaYoun]

@PKhakpour I think we are -- I and others talked to her about her decision.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

For authors still wondering if your voices matter, $75,000 will now be donated to the @ThePCRF because of the dogged work of @wawog_now and the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

[monsteryoun 윤영나 @MonicaYoun]

@PKhakpour She made a principled decision. Check her IG feed for her reasons. It wasn't about the money.

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

We won.

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

BREAKING: The 2024 PEN America Literary Awards ceremony has been canceled. Two juried prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. https://t.co/tOsPWVSWe0

[Stephanie Burt (Taylor's Version) 🥥✨ @accommodatingly]

This. When we're all dead people are gonna be reading @MonicaYoun to find out what we did, & what vexed us. https://t.co/3K64nCrdGD @POETSorg

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Then—as if someone had switched on a black light in the sky—

the traceries of dread just visible all around her, the curving
       trajectories of each possible disaster

once seen, now indelible

––Monica Youn
@MonicaYoun
#PoemADay

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