Ryan Choi

Jan 22, 2025 | poetryfoundation.org | Ryan Choi |Janani Ambikapathy Purchase |Janani Ambikapathy

Three Demons: A Study in Sanki Saitō’s Haiku marks the first English book of work by the Japanese haiku poet whose nom de plume, Sanki, means “three demons.” As translator Ryan Choi points out in his translator’s note, these translations do not adhere to the 5-7-5 rule of haiku. Indeed, the haikus are not discernible as individual poems in the book, and Choi has said of his English renderings that they are “novel arrangements” of the source poems.

Jan 20, 2025 | ycombinator.com | Dalton Caldwell |Y Combinator |Ryan Choi

by Dalton Caldwell1/20/2025Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the first ever spring batch, which we are abbreviating as X25. Apply To X25One of the first questions people ask when we say we are doing a spring batch is what letter we will use to refer to it since “S” is already taken for the summer batch.

Apr 15, 2024 | ycombinator.com | Y Combinator |Paige Omura |Catheryn Li |Ryan Choi

We’re excited to announce we’ll be visiting London and three universities in the UK – Cambridge, Imperial, and Oxford. If you’re interested in starting a startup, or are in the early stages of building one, we hope to see you there. Paul Graham, one of the co-founders of Y Combinator, will kick off the trip with a talk in London. At our university events, you’ll meet two YC partners – Tom Blomfield and Surbhi Sarna.

Mar 27, 2024 | conjunctions.com | Ryan Choi

i. migdal babelOn my day off, I drove my aging father to his death in the quaint town he had frequented after the navy when he was bouncing between jobs. On the phone, two nights before the fated trip, was the first I had heard him speak of this place. Though I believed him, doubts soon set in, and I wondered whether his claim was a phantom of his condition.

Mar 20, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Ryan Choi

Untitled (December 12, 1897)Turning on my heels, I left the Imperial Palace. Outside the gates, I leaned against my sword—                   as a last farewell . . . Now where I am in Higo Province, far beneath                   the precipitous rock faces and cliffsThe self-refreshing Chikugo River pours itself                   into the open sea. The autumn winds go round at sunset, as                   the stragglingTravelers are swallowed up by the tall grass                   of the plains.