Wo Chan is a poet and drag performer living in Brooklyn. Check out two poems from A Cruelty Special to Our Species in The Margins. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor for The Margins, and is a PhD student studying Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her poems and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, POETRY, The New York Times Magazine, and Korean Literature Now. She has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. She was born in Busan, Republic of Korea and received her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. Emily is also the author of Ordinary Misfortunes, the 2017 winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize by Tupelo Press. These are poems deeply invested in the minutiae of language, how one word leads to the next, connecting sound, rhythm, and meaning between languages, poets, and women. The poems in this book are records of earthly and human violence-the sexual slavery of Korean comfort women, lives lost during natural disasters, and the everyday, accumulating ways that women hurt and are made to silently accept that pain. $5 SUGGESTED DONATION | OPEN TO THE PUBLICĮmily Jungmin Yoon collects testimony and confronts history in her debut collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018).
Come celebrate her poetic force along with readings from poet and drag performer Wo Chan, poet Kristin Chang, and writer, video artist, and scholar of light Sueyeun Juliette Lee, who is visiting us from Denver! As Poetry Editor for The Margins, Emily has cultivated a special home for Asian American poetry in all of its richness. Join us for a transcendent night celebrating Emily Yoon’s debut collection of poetry, A Cruelty to Our Species, a collection of testimony to Korean “comfort women” who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II, and a bright elegy to departed ancestors, languages, and girlhood.
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