Evan Wang
王潇
Poet & Performer
“Wang’s deftness in telescoping vast swathes of time, while sustaining both mythic and quotidian proportions for experience is remarkable.”
“Wang’s deft poems explore how to remain tender despite the ghosts
of disappointment and left-behind possibilities.”
王潇/Evan Wang is the 9th National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, the first male and East Asian individual to hold this title, and author of Slow Burn (Northwestern University Press, 2026), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. His work appears in POETRY Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere, and has been featured at and recognized by the Biden White House, the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution, and Google DeepMind.
