2025 Winter Keynote
with Love & Eros guest judge, Sun Yung Shin
This event is open for registration from November 1 – November 30, 2025.
Love & Eros: Imbuing Mythos into Modern-Day Poetry
To celebrate our fourth run of the Love & Eros Prize, we've invited our guest judge, 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin, to share her expertise on writing about love, weaving mythos into poems, and sharing cultural experiences through literature. Join our virtual lecture and workshop on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST as we read, write, and discuss these ideas and answer your questions about everything from craft to publication.
"Myths can help us see ourselves as part of larger patterns in the human story, and in culturally specific stories, images, and motifs, grounding us in both the ancestral and the futuristic. In this generative workshop, we will read one or more poems that have some relationship to mythology, love, and eros—and write from one or more related prompts designed to connect us with the expansive power of the myth as creative charge, permission, and necessity." —Sun Yung Shin
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is a Korean-born award-winning poet and writer based in Minneapolis on the Dakotah homeland. She is the author of five collections of poetry: Six Tones of Water co-written with Vi Khi Nao from Ricochet Editions and The Wet Hex and three other books from Coffee House Press. She is the editor of three anthologies of essays and the author of three picture books. Her prose book Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language will be published in May 2026 and her latest picture book Revolutions are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs will be released in November 2025. She is also co-adapting a young people's edition of Asian American Histories of the United States by Cathy Ceniza Choy from Beacon Press.
Registration costs $10, or $5 if you submit or have submitted to the 2025 Love & Eros Prize! You can register below through Submittable, or submit to the Love & Eros Prize to receive the discounted registration option. The event Zoom link will be sent in the confirmation email from Submittable.
We're excited to see you then!
