The Gwenn A. Nusbaum / WWBA Poets To Come Scholarship Committee has selected Hua Xi (they/she) as the 2022 Scholarship recipient. Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (WWBA) founded the Gwenn A. Nusbaum / WWBA “Poets To Come” Scholarship Award. This $1500 scholarship is offered in the spirit of Walt Whitman’s poem, “Poets to Come: POETS to come! / Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,/ But you, a new brood…/Leaving it to you to prove and define it,/Expecting the main things from you.”
During the scholarship year, Hua plans to publish a first chapbook of poetry and finish a first poetry book manuscript. Hua is interested in the mind and its internal languages, and writes about ways “we internally process the pain of the world. The interior world can be as vast as the actual one, a place where things happen both forwards and backwards, simultaneously and years apart, where everything is true but nothing is real.”
This event has a $5 suggested donation: https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2197152
YouTube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3YqbyyANSM&ab_channel=WaltWhitman
