5 November 2026
Rogue Loon Reading Series
6:30 PM (America/New_York)Black Spring Books672 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Speaking
Upcoming Events
Video
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Morgan Lucas Schuldt Reading
Emily Dickinson Museum
Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series with Ocean Vuong, Joseph Fritsch, and Yanyi
Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
Yanyi reads Linda Gregg's “We Manage Most When We Manage Small”
Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
Yanyi - “Dream Diary”
The Offing
An Interview with Poet Yanyi with Crisosto Apache
The Wheeler Centre
Little Fates: Yanyi and Danny Soberano
Greenlight Bookstore
Yanyi with Sandra Lim
Greenlight Bookstore
Paul Tran with Yanyi
Foster
Reading and Writing with Yanyi
The Poetry Project
Yanyi and Juliana Spahr
Asian American Writers Workshop
AAWWTV: Year of Blue Water Book Launch with Yanyi, Wo Chan, Erica Hunt, and Monica Youn
Asian American Writers Workshop
AAWWTV: 2017-2018 Margins Fellow & Mentors Reading
Asian American Writers Workshop
AAWWTV: Data, Poetry, Trauma with Paisley Rekdal, Soyoung Yoon, Jennifer Hayashida
Audio
Poets House
Craft Talk: The Revolution Is Emotional: Recovering Art and Community with Yanyi
Viewless Wings
Yanyi's Dream of the Divided Field Explores the Separation of Self
Keep the Channel Open
Episode 126: Yanyi (Dream of the Divided Field)
Keep the Channel Open
Episode 93: Yanyi (The Year of Blue Water)
VS (Poetry Foundation)
Yanyi vs. the Personal (Interviewed by Danez Smith and Franny Choi)
NPR: All Things Considered
Writer Yanyi Reads A Poem From His Collection, 'The Year Of Blue Water'
Commonplace
Episode 50: Inside Commonplace
The Podcast for Social Research
Episode 13: Poetic Experiments (Robin Coste Lewis and Maggie Nelson)
Commonplace
Episode 69: Live Reading with Brown, Joseph, Meitner Parker, Pico, Tolbert, and Yanyi
Asian American Writers Workshop
AAWW Radio: Poetry Vs. Community Vs. History (AWP Panel)
Interviews
queer poetry aesthetics with ray levy uyeda
YANYI
Electric Literature
Carrying the Home of Our Past Selves
Poets & Writers
Ten Questions for Yanyi
New England Review
Behind the Byline (Interviewed by Tiana Nobile)
Kenyon Review
Poetry Today #3: Being and Kindness (Interviewed by Ruben Quesada)
Poets & Writers
Poetic Lenses: Our Fifteenth Annual Look at Debut Poetry
f(r)iction
Writers Talking About Anything but Writing: An Interview with Yanyi on Reality TV, Gardens, and Traveling Alone
The Creative Independent
On the differences between creativity and productivity (Interviewed by Kristen Felicetti)
BOMB Magazine
Love Is Something We Inherit (Interviewed by Sarah Sala)
Interviews with Others
The Adroit Journal
A Conversation with Jennifer Chang
VIDA Review
On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang
The Margins (Asian American Writers Workshop)
Writing the Families We Want: An Interview with Chen Chen
Invite Yanyi as a Speaker
For speaking inquiries (e.g. lectures, retreats, readings, etc), contact Leslie Shipman at The Shipman Agency (leslie [at] theshipmanagency [dot] com).