An Evening with Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi
Campus Arts Event
An Evening with Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi
Poets Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon read from their works and speak about their writing and collaboration.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Lantern
October 04, 2023 | 7:30 pm
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Event Details

Poets Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon will read from their works and speak about their writing and collaboration with Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Director Susan Bernofsky.

Artist Details

Kim, Hyesoon is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She came into prominence from the late 1990s and was the first woman poet to receive the prestigious Kim Su-yong and Midang awards.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), which received the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.

Location

The Lantern 
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

About The Event

This evening is devoted to the incendiary magic that arises when one brilliant poet translates another. For over a decade, poet Don Mee Choi (National Book Award winner, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow) has been translating the fiercely iconoclastic and radically feminist poetry of Kim Hyesoon (Daesan Literary Award, Griffin Poetry Prize), one of the foremost poets of South Korea. The two will read from their works and speak about their writing and collaboration with Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Director Susan Bernofsky.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Images (L to R): Kim Hyesoon / photo by Jung Melmel; Don Mee Choi / photo by Dirk Skiba