World Poetry Day: A Conversation with Joses Ho, Charlene Shepherdson, and Tse Hao Guang

In an era where AI writes sonnets, social media dictates the viral fame (or shame) of writers, and online archives offer instant access to centuries-old manuscripts, how are we to understand the relationship between literature and technology?

In celebration of World Poetry Day, come join poets Joses Ho, Charlene Shepherdson, and Tse Hao Guang at the HSS Library, as they engage in a candid, unscripted conversation on the changing relationship between writing and technology. The discussion will be hosted by Assistant Professor Samuel Caleb Wee. Refreshments will be served.

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Tse Hao Guang (謝皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2023). He edited the new edition of Windham-Campbell prize-winning poet Wong May’s 1969 debut, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals (Ethos Books, 2023), and runs Paper Jam, a literary pamphlet imprint. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, a 2018 writer-in-residence at NTU, and a 2023 virtual resident of the National Centre for Writing at Norwich. Poems and essays appear in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Yale Review, Brick, the Earthbound Poetry Series, and elsewhere.

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Charlene Shepherdson is an interdisciplinary writer based in Singapore who creates experiences using visual text, interactive narratives and historical archives.

The breadth of their practice spans poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art installations and social sculptures with a deep focus on the ideas that exist in the in-betweens. Find them at www.charshep.com. 

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