Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from labor poet Park Nohae’s photo-essay collection One Day, which documents his travels and encounters through Burma/Myanmar, Pakistan, India, and elsewhere. Park was a factory worker and anonymous dissident poet, who helped establish the South Korean Socialist Workers’ Alliance in the 1980s. For this, he was tortured, sentenced to […]
To celebrate the 97th year since the 1919 March First Independence Movement uprisings in Korea against the Japanese Empire, we present translated poems by three colonial-era Korean writers. Goldfish by Kim Kirimtranslated by Jack Saebyok Jung The goldfish thinks the air beyond the fishbowl is an unscalable sky.Suddenly, the goldfish is clothed in golden scales. […]
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