…1997, Kim Hyesoon became the first female poet to win the prestigious Kim Su-y?ng prize for socially-engaged poetry. This major recognition, according to Don Mee Choi’s afterword, signaled a “major…

…you come upon Kim’s poetry? Don Mee Choi: I first came across Kim Hyesoon’s poetry in an essay written by Kim Chông-nan, a Korean poet and feminist literary critic. The…

…? 63, We were as surprised as Stalin and Kim Il Sung at Truman’s orders to go into action in Korea, Kim Il-soon ? 61,I remember distinctly MacArthur’s headquarters telling…

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…clings.” Doo-Ri Chung and Prithi Gowda at the New Museum. (E. Tammy Kim) In April, before she announced her departure from the doo.ri label, I met Doo-Ri and our mutual…

…moving and dramatic graphic novel of aging, war, family reunions, and separation. Her mother’s story. Her mother was staying with Gendry-Kim in Paris for two months after Gendry-Kim’s father passed…

…follows the authors’ readings is moderated by former AAWW Open City Fellow and New Yorker writer, E. Tammy Kim. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for weekly videos featuring our favorite…

…any poets like Kim Hyesoon that have influenced you? KMJ: For me it was Choi Seung-ja. Even though Kim Hyesoon and Choi Seung-ja are basically the same age, their work…

…One City One Book Hong Kong. Tammy’s first collection of poetry is Hula HoopingHula Hooping (Chameleon 2015), for which she won the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts from the…

…2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow, and a fellow at Type Media Center. She was an AAWW Open City fellow in 2012–13. Find more at etkwrites.tumblr.com, and follow her on Twitter @etammykim.…

…distort poetic language is how they undermine patriarchy. Perhaps the most blunt poet working in this tradition is the poet Kim Yideum. Kim Yideum is the author of five books…

…forever. The show goes on. There are a lot of candles. Kim Yuna puts them out by blowing her breath toward me. Maewol Dong acts the part of Kim Siseup…

…to use kimchi in a frittata, and last November her cook book The Kimchi Cookbook was released illustrating 60 inventive ways to both make your own kimchi and use kimchi…

An Attitude “Hong Kong 831” by Badiucao The words graffitied on columns and walls exemplify an attitude, not a lifestyle. At night, whoever chants protest slogans out the windows of…

…identity pervades Kim’s work, which deals frequently with themes of migration, Korean national history, and family strife. In this week’s studio visit, we hear from Kim about place, time, and…

…E. Tammy Kim “This is what I would like to say to all those people who are against undocumented kids: if I would have known that this would have happened…

About a decade ago, I became familiar with the work of filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, who’s best known for documentaries on the 1992 L.A. Riots and Japan’s system of sexual…

Many of Kim Hyesoon’s poems are gut-wrenching, uncomfortable, and irresistibly intestinal and intense. One of South Korea’s most influential contemporary poets, she refuses to conform to what she calls “[t]he…

…Kim. I expected someone a lot older but Kim is a Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist in his 30s. Kim, who is Korean, also had been brought up going to Chinese…

When NYU sophomore Sam Kim attended a rally outside Manhattan’s City Hall in March, he didn’t think that he would be ushered into the spotlight. Kim had learned of the…