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2/26 join us at Local Economy for a reading from 2 new translations of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry. Cindy Juyoung Ok & @daybreakjung.bsky.social will read their translations, followed by a conversation with @rokwon.bsky.social. Book sales by @ebbooksellers.bsky.social. Register at buff.ly/BT7bzGn
February 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain.

Du Fu, trans. Arthur Sze
Du Fu, trans. Arthur Sze, full poem text below Spring View The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain. Spring is in the city, grasses and trees are thick. Touched by the hard times, flowers shed tears. Grieved by separations, birds are startled in their hearts. The beacon fires burned for three consecutive months. A letter from home would be worth ten thousand pieces of gold. As I scratch my white head, the hairs become ewer: so scarce that I try in vain to fasten them with a pin.
January 12, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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LADY NO by Kim Hyesoon, translated by @daybreakjung.bsky.social (Ecco Press). “I gobbled up all the excerpts published in various outlets over the past couple of years and am eager to read the collection in its entirety.” — Maggie Vlietstra, Education Program Manager bookshop.org/p/books/lady...
Lady No
Check out Lady No - <p><b>From the legendary avant-garde poet </b><b>Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date.</b></p><p><b>“Poetry in…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
a new poem for 2026 – 'Even after grace'.

Thank you so much for reading 🩶

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Even after grace I’ll still worry as the bread leavens. Reprieve, but less teeth for the banquet. Who doesn’t want the wine of dissolution? Its feathers lately blue on the roof as we thrum through sheets of rain? For music at the wings to acquit the body’s dull current. What strikes twice on faces like this? Despite a cross, the chapel the realtor trades in broad daylight. Its one jaded window where you vacate me like a wave.                                                             Vikki C.
January 4, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Year of the Red Fire Horse. I’m reminded of a poem by Jeongrye Choi about a legendary warrior who cuts off the head of the horse that always carried him to his lover’s house, believing this act will allow him to fulfill his destiny. The poem, however, takes a different view.
December 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Just finished the first full English draft of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry collection, working title: Dear Mister Manager of Calendar Factory. The title poem writes straight to an invisible “mister manager” who seems to oversee time. (1/6)
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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So proud I could burst. Two luminous Korean poetry books in English, both by my former ALTA Emerging Translator mentees

💫 Jein Han’s Phantom Limbs (Lee Min-ha)
💫 Archana Madhavan’s PIROWA PADOWA (Lee Jenny)

#translation #koreanpoetry #ALTA #LTIKorea
A wooden tabletop holds two poetry books and a small crocheted black bird with a gray beak and shiny eyes perched in a blue cup. On the left is Phantom Limbs by Lee Min-ha, translated by Jein Han, with a pale yellow cover and a green vine design. On the right is Pirowa Padowa by Lee Jenny, translated by Archana Madhavan, with a blue-green cover showing a blurred, abstract landscape and the note “Winner of the Malinda A. Markham Prize for Translation.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Just got home to find the advance galleys of Kim Hyesoob’s Lady No waiting on my doorstep. Artwork by Fi Jae Lee, translation by me. Coming from Ecco in April 2026. Grateful to the poet, the artist, and the best editor ever, Deborah Ghim. ❤️✨💫
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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If you liked "One Battle After Another," then may I recommend...
Black-and-white cover of Matewan from The Criterion Collection. A man in a hat and suit stands in the foreground, his back to the viewer, holding a gun at his side. Ahead of him, a group of men in hats and dark suits stand on a railroad track in the distance, facing him through a haze of light and smoke. The large, bold title “MATEWAN” spans the lower half of the image, with smaller text reading “Written and directed by John Sayles.” The left border notes “1987 · The Criterion Collection.” The overall mood is tense and cinematic, evoking an impending confrontation.
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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poetrydaily.bsky.social
Today's Featured Poem:

"Schrödinger" by Katie Erbs published by @pinchjournal.bsky.social

Read here:
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Schrödinger
It is my mother's turn in the box she is alive she is dead
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September 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Many thanks to @poetrydaily.bsky.social for hosting this essay and the poem.
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: @daybreakjung.bsky.social on "Nurse II"

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Nurse II
Even though it seems unlikely that I see myself in their lines, I do,
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September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Grateful to have three new translations of Heeum’s poetry in the latest Fall issue of the Massachusetts Review.

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September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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There are 12 mentors in 2026:

📚 Children’s Lit from a South Asian Language w. @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
📚 Japanese w. @tnieda.bsky.social
📚 Kannada w. Deepa Bhasthi
📚 Korean Poetry w. @daybreakjung.bsky.social
📚 Korean Prose w. Janet Hong
September 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📣 Meet the mentors for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program! buff.ly/uQyIkTL

The program allows an emerging translator to establish and develop a close working relationship with an experienced translator on a literary translation project chosen by the emerging translator.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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These 12 mentorships available in 2026: 

📚 Children's Lit from a S. Asian Language w. @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
📚 Korean Prose w. Janet Hong
📚 Korean Poetry w. @daybreakjung.bsky.social
📚 Japanese w. @tnieda.bsky.social
📚 Kannada w. Deepa Bhasthi
📚 Lit from Taiwan w. @linkinglionking.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open!

The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.

Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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In Kim Bok Hui’s poem, the speaker’s faith in God and God’s creations rises and rots creating a rapturous fever dream. Translated from Korean by @daybreakjung.bsky.social . Read the poem here:
God of Petals - Words Without Borders
In Kim Bok Hui’s poem, the speaker’s faith in God and God’s creations rises and rots, creating a rapturous fever dream.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Sit back and let the heady odors of this poem—floral and earth, rot and illness—carry you through the speaker’s seesaw of gratitude and frustration. Read “God of Petals” by Kim Bok Hui, translated from Korean by @daybreakjung.bsky.social , at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
A text-based graphic with a purple hue and the edge of a photo of flower stems on the right hand side. On the left, text in white, plus the WWB logo, which reads: ”POETRY God of Petals By Kim Bok Hui, translated from Korean by Jack Saebyok Jung From one distant country to another, it is sending up its prayer.”
August 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Grateful to @wwborders.bsky.social for hosting my translation of Kim Bok Hui’s “God of Petals”!

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August 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Yi Yuksa, a poet and freedom fighter, wrote “Blue Grapes” while under Japanese colonial rule. His work blends lyrical beauty with quiet defiance. Perhaps freedom was his long-awaited guest. Another poem in translation for the 80th anniversary of Korea’s Liberation Day.
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Han Yong-un (aka Manhae)—poet, Buddhist monk, and advocate for Korea’s freedom—ended his 1926 poetry collection "The Silence of My Beloved" with this tender piece, almost a calling. Here are his words in English on the 80th anniversary of Korea’s Liberation Day.
August 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Thrilled to share “Lady No” by Kim Hyesoon—with drawings by Fi Jae Lee—179 pieces spanning journals, aphorisms, recipes & reflections on a national tragedy. Surreal, visceral, and searing with humor & rage.

Out Apr 14, 2026 from @eccobooks.bsky.social Preorder: harpercollins.com/products/lady-…
Screenshot of the HarperCollins website page for the book Lady No by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Jack Saebyok Jung. The book cover is bright yellow with red text. The illustration shows a stylized figure with a large flower-like head filled with upright knives, a lit cigarette in one hand, and bent legs in motion. The names “KIM HYESOON” and “JACK SAEBYOK JUNG” appear in bold red, with “WITH DRAWINGS BY FI JAE LEE” in smaller text along the side.
August 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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시인·소설가·만화가 앨런 마이클 파커 @ampydoo.bsky.social 의 신작 『빙고 뱅고 배잉고』  (Bingo Bango Baingo/Dzanc, 2025) 중 삶의 갈래를 빙고판에 풀어낸 초단편 (flash fiction) 〈인생을 바꾸는 빙고〉 입니다. 파커의 섬세한 위트와 통찰을 만나 보시길.
July 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM