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Poetry Reading: “Transhumance”

103 Scheide Caldwell House

In her third collection recently published in English, Chimera, (New Directions: 2024, translated by Brian Sneeden, Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics, poetics of assemblage that are both informed by the human and the non-human, where poetry blends with writing, myth, orality, field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. The center […]

Don Mee Choi: A Reading and Conversation

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US trilogy: Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024), the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), and Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016). She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s […]