Evan Wang
王潇
Poet, performer, and advocate redefining the role of poetry in entertainment.
“‘Prodigy’ is not a word to be used lightly. Rarely does one come across a young person so exceptional in their ability that it feels worthy to give them a title with such implications of greatness. Evan Wang is undoubtedly worthy of the word.”
“Wang’s deftness in telescoping vast swathes of time, while sustaining both mythic and quotidian proportions for experience is remarkable.”
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, Teen Vogue, the Smithsonian Institution, and Google DeepMind.
