Don Mee Choi

Nov 19, 2024 | sevenstories.com | Ryan Ruby |Don Mee Choi |Jeff Dolven

Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley.

Sep 19, 2024 | centerforfiction.org | Don Mee Choi |Jennifer Croft |Bruna Dantas Lobato |Lily Meyer

Register for FreeClear Thursday, 12:00 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDTSeptember 26, 2024 The Center for Fiction& LivestreamedOn Thursday, September 26th, the Center for the Art of Translation will present its annual Day of Translation. Co-hosted this year at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, New York, this afternoon symposium of provocative panels on language and literature will conclude with a keynote address delivered by poet and translator Don Mee Choi.

Nov 11, 2023 | tricycle.org | Kim Hyesoon |Don Mee Choi

Written after the passing of her father, Phantom Pain Wings is a remarkable achievement from one of South Korea’s most heavily revered and imaginative poets, Kim Hyesoon. While the poems of this collection center on grief and death, they never aim for consolation or an easily digestible sentiment but rather create parallel worlds, separate from reality and simultaneously separate from the memories or images that conjured them into being.

Oct 24, 2023 | powells.com | Jamaica Kincaid |Kim Hyesoon |Don Mee Choi |Fleur Jaeggy

The journey of writing Organ Meats was far from linear; it was more like the patchwork process of creating a quilt. Foraging from inherited histories, oral stories, and inspirational texts, I conceived of this novel as a vessel for collectives of women. The two girls at the center of the novel, Anita and Rainie, are haunted by a chorus of feral dogs who narrate their hungry ancestry, giving voice to generations of deferred desire. As always, I was inspired by writers in translation.

Oct 2, 2023 | brooklynrail.org | Don Mee Choi

Critics Page Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks… The photographs I am speaking of are in effect punctuated, sometimes even speckled with these sensitive points; precisely these marks, these wounds are so many points. This second element which will disturb the studium I shall therefore call punctum. History is hysterical.