Suji Kwock Kim
Suji Kwock Kim (born 1969) is a Korean American poet-playwright.
Life
She graduated from Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow.[1]
Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, SLATE, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review and on National Public Radio, reprinted in 24 anthologies, and translated into Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, and Bengali.[2]
Music and Theatre
Choral settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe Berlin, and Japanische Fraueninitiative Berlin, premiered at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo in December 2007. Vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, premiered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and were recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in March 2007.
She is collaborating on an opera with the composer Mark Grey for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale, and is co-author of Private Property, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY), produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and featured on BBC-TV.
Awards
Works
- "Writing In the New Year; New Year at the Demilitarized Zone". New York Times. December 31, 2003. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6DE113EF932A05751C1A9659C8B63&scp=2&sq=suji+kwock+kim&st=nyt.
- Notes from the Divided Country. Louisiana State University Press. 2003. ISBN 9780807128732.
- Private Property (multimedia play)
- Opera with Mark Grey, TBD (libretto; Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale, forthcoming)
- "hwajon," "Flight," "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" (texts for choral compositions by Mayako Kubo, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, 2007)
- "Occupation," "Fragments of the Forgotten War," "Montage with Neon" (texts for compositions for voice and piano by Jerome Blais, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007)
Anthologies
- Harold Bloom, ed (2007). American Religious Poetry. Library of America. ISBN 9781931082747.
- Lorrie Goldensohn, ed (2006). "The Chasm". American War Poetry: 1794-2004. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231133104. http://books.google.com/books?id=GMV1-DVh4sIC&pg=PA281&dq=Suji+Kwock+Kim&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=3#v=onepage&q=Suji%20Kwock%20Kim&f=false.
- Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation. University of Illinois Press. 2004. ISBN 9780252071744.
- Backpack Literature, ed. Dana Gioia (Longman, 2006)
- Berliner Anthologie (Alexander Verlag, in association with Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2006)
- Century of the Tiger: 20th Century Korean Literature (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)
- Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin, 2004)
- Contemporary American Poetry in Russian Translation (OSI, Moscow, 2008, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Embassy in Russia)
- Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing (Temple University Press, 2003)
- The Future Dictionary of America, ed. Dave Eggers and Vendela Veda (McSweeney's, 2004)
- The Griffin Prize Anthology (House of Anansi Press, Toronto, 2004)
- Inside Literature (Longman, 2007)
- An Introduction to Poetry, 12th Edition (Longman, 2007)
- Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar, ed (2008). Language for a New Century: Contemporary Voices from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. Norton. ISBN 9780393332384.
- Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Sarabande. 2006. ISBN 9781932511291.
- Lineas Conectadas: Nueva Poesia de los Estados Unidos (Sarabande, 2006, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Embassy in Mexico)
- Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin, 2007)
- Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 10th Edition (Longman, 2006)
- A Mingling of Waters (Supernova P&D Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India, 2008, in association with the U.S. Embassy in India, USKLE, and 2008 Kolkata Book Fair)
- The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators and Waiting Rooms. Picador. 2004. ISBN 9780312422400.
- Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin, 2004)
- Poetry For Students (Thomson Gale, 2006)
- Poetry On Record, 1888-2006: 98 Poets Read Their Work (Shout Factory/ Sony BMG Music, 2006)
- Poetry 30 (University of West Virginia Press, 2005)
References
External links
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Kim, Suji Kwock |
| Alternative names |
Kim Suji Kwock |
| Short description |
Korean-American poet, playwright |
| Date of birth |
1969 |
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| Date of death |
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