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

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. ❤️✨💫

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Today's Featured Poem: "Schrödinger" by Katie Erbs published by @pinchjournal.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/schrodi...

Many thanks to @poetrydaily.bsky.social for hosting this essay and the poem.

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: @daybreakjung.bsky.social on "Nurse II" Read here: poems.com/poem/nurse-ii/

Grateful to have three new translations of Heeum’s poetry in the latest Fall issue of the Massachusetts Review. massreview.org/issue/volume...

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

📣 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.

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

📣 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

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:

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...

Grateful to @wwborders.bsky.social for hosting my translation of Kim Bok Hui’s “God of Petals”! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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.

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.

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-…

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.

Happy pub day to poet Yoo Heekyung and translator Stine An—Today’s Morning Vocabulary is out today from ZephyrPress. Dive into this quietly luminous collection in this thread. (www.zephyrpress.org/product-page...)

In "Janus," Poet Oh Eun distills his wit and existential unease into a deceptively quiet meditation on survival. Known for pushing the aesthetic of linguistic play to bold extremes in Korean poetry, Oh Eun pairs his surreal sensibility with a sharpened clarity.

A little essay of mine about getting dumped and playing video games and writing poems in lowan ice box. Many thanks to Zona Motel for hosting it, and wonderful Izzy Casey for her keen edits. 😵💔🥶🕹️ open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

Poet Kim Min Jeong jump‑ropes across the grotesque with a child‑bright grin. In her collection 날으는 고슴도치 아가씨 (Flying Hedgehog Lady), fairy‑tale whimsy collides with self‑cannibal joy and mirror‑shard despair. Step into her dazzling, skewed zoo in the attached poem.

Kim Hyesoon corner at Seoul’s one and only poetry bookshop Wit + Cynical. Cameo with Korean translation of Dictee.

And here I was getting to that part of my leftist life where I was just thinking, "Oh I must just like losing all the time. Cool."

Winning?!

자음과모음 여름호에 제 졸필, 시와 시 번역에 대한 글이 실렸습니다. 편집위원들께 감사드리며, @antonhur.com 형의 첫 단편과 나란히 실려 출판된 것은 큰 영광입니다. 읽어보고 싶으신 분은 링크를 통해 구매하실 수 있습니다. ^^ www.aladin.co.kr/m/mproduct.a...

Jin I-jeong was a maverick whose poems crackle like shamanic drums, smash taboos, and pour “heavy-metal rain” of longing and cosmic despair. His poem “Poet” opens his sole posthumous collection, "For an Upside-Down Dream."

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"Being a blackbird, being endlessly sucked into black night, being lightless, heatless, riding the wind." At Poetry Northwest, check out the poem "Losing" by Kim Bokhui, translated from Korean by ALTA mentor @daybreakjung.bsky.social ! www.poetrynw.org/poetry/losing/

윌리엄 칼로스 윌리엄스는 No idea but in things 선언으로 20세기 미국시의 면모를 바꾼 시인입니다. 아래는 그의 유명한 시 한 편의 번역입니다. No idea but in things를 번역한다면... “사물 없이 사상 없다” “사물 속에만 사상이 있다” “사상은 오직 사물 속에만” “관념이 아니라 사물이다"

Many thanks to Poetry Northwest for hosting my translation of Kim Bokhui’s poem “Losing” from her book <Sweet Porosity>. www.poetrynw.org/poetry/losing/

"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here." - Captain John Paarker, to his Minute Men on Lexington Green, April 19, 1775.

From Hedgie Choi’s exciting debut “Salvage” @UWiscPress

Democracy forever / 민주주의여 만세

The only surviving photograph cutout of Kafka and Yi Sang’s infamous meeting at the Paris Biennale in 1931. Right after taking this photo, they nearly came to blows after their interpreter mistranslated their terms of endearment as ‘vermin’ in German and ‘cuckold’ in Korean.

Come by AWP Bookfair T332!

See you in Los Angeles for #AWP25

Today is the official publication date of my debut poetry collection, Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus, published by Black Square Editions. Let me show you where I went when the music of words abducted me. You can purchase your copy directly from: blacksquareeditions.org/books/p/hocusp…

Kim Soo-young’s early verses, shaped by Existentialism, explored love. After the April Revolution and a U.S.-backed dictatorship in South Korea, his poetry confronted oppression and social injustice. Today, his voice resonates anew amid worldwide struggles for freedom.

Our eyes and ears refused obedience the princes of our senses proudly chose exile It did not require great character at all we had a shred of necessary courage - Zbigniew Herbert, transl. John and Bogdana Carpenter, “Report from the Besieged City” (ecco 1985)

12 days from launch day of my first poetry collection from Black Square Editions! Let’s cast a Hocus Pocus spell together and get the aliens to abduct us from here-and-now, which is a made up thing anyway. 👽🛸🪄🧌🧙 Preorder here: shorturl.at/UGamw

The March First Movement (1919) was a Korean protest against Japanese colonial rule. It remains a defining moment in Korean history. "Does Spring Still Come To These Stolen Fields" (1926) by Yi Sang-hwa is a poem of resistance and elegy for those whose lands were stolen.

A fresh new translation of Kim Bok Hui's poem from her third collection "Sweet Porosity" (스미기에 좋지/봄날의 책). "Free Heart" (자유로운 마음). Thank you Blackbird for giving this heart a home. Go check out the amazing issue! blackbird.vcu.edu

Hot off the presses. Here is “Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus” come to take us home. Thank you, Black Square Editions. If you’d like a review copy, please let me know and I will mail it to ya! You can also preorder via blacksquareeditions.org/books/p/hocusp… Or @asterismbooks.bsky.social 💫👽🛸

Optional Saint, my first book of poems, is available for pre-order from Bench Editions! Thank you to everyone who has asked about it ❤️ www.bencheditions.com/optional-saint

In honor of Yun Dong-ju, who died in Imperial Japanese prison after suspected medical experiments on his body, this day 80 years ago:

"Translation of "The Hell of That Star" to Be Introduced in the U.S. Next Year A Series of Poems Capturing the Violence and Dignity of the Martial Law Era The Poet’s Experience Finds Its Way Into Han Kang’s Novel"