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NYS Writers Institute: Poet Margaret Rhee - "Falling in love with robots"
Margaret Rhee's debut collection, Love, Robot (2017), is an experimental text about romantic relationships between humans and technology, was awarded the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association, the Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and named the 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy magazine.
4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 5
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room
Campus Center West Addition
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12222
Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale.
A signing will follow the conversation.
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen said, “In a paradoxical and wonderful way, Margaret Rhee's robot love affairs make us rethink what it might mean to be human.”
Chair of Arts Writing at The New School in New York City, she is currently completing two books with Duke University Press: Machine Dreams: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body, and Poetry Machines — essays on poetry and technology.
Cosponsored by the AI & Society College and Research Center, and the Information Sciences and Technology Department of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), and the Honors College.
Event Links
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