Kwak Youna https://kwakyouna.com Kwak Youna Thu, 19 May 2022 01:34:56 +0000 https://kwakyouna.com en Home https://kwakyouna.com/Home Thu, 19 May 2022 01:30:10 +0000 Kwak Youna https://kwakyouna.com/Home Youna Kwak • 곽 유나 News https://kwakyouna.com/News Thu, 19 May 2022 01:34:56 +0000 Kwak Youna https://kwakyouna.com/News NEWS Recent Events For this and Other CrueltiesPub. date Sept 22, 2025 Winner of CALIBA (California Bookseller’s Alliance) 2025 Golden Poppy Award <img width="1800" height="2700" width_o="1800" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c580bf7437597c6ced31fee3e2ea2bb94c35f8fdcde359bc832a173fe3b9d39b/Final_For-This-and-Other.jpg" data-mid="238090068" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c580bf7437597c6ced31fee3e2ea2bb94c35f8fdcde359bc832a173fe3b9d39b/Final_For-This-and-Other.jpg" />Kuhl House Poets University of Iowa Press &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thursday, Sept 25, 6-7pm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Village Well&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 9900 Culver Blvd&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Los Angeles CA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; with Prageeta Sharma &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Wednesday, October 1, 6:30pm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; First Light Books&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 43rd &amp; Speedway, Hyde Park&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Austin TX &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; with Tawanda Mulalu &nbsp; 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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Portland, OR&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;with Lisa Wells &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Poetry https://kwakyouna.com/Poetry Thu, 19 May 2022 01:33:31 +0000 Kwak Youna https://kwakyouna.com/Poetry POETRY <img width="1800" height="2700" width_o="1800" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fadf02a052b3a361ed1d2ff441ac0229dfd1e7c94d14d053bf3df9af443b58dd/Kwak_HRCvr.jpg" data-mid="237995836" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fadf02a052b3a361ed1d2ff441ac0229dfd1e7c94d14d053bf3df9af443b58dd/Kwak_HRCvr.jpg" />Kuhl House PoetsUniversity of Iowa Press (2025) 2025 CALIBA (California Booksellers Alliance) Golden Poppy Award Winner&nbsp; ¨ <img width="1152" height="1152" width_o="1152" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83f6879dd971877e2a52595dd9a372c9901eecb83c7f0ce3357aa75998bc92ee/survie-front.jpg" data-mid="237995811" border="0" data-scale="42" data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83f6879dd971877e2a52595dd9a372c9901eecb83c7f0ce3357aa75998bc92ee/survie-front.jpg" /> Fathom Books (2020) Poems: “After”Poem-a-Day&nbsp;(2025) “[After]”Cholla Needles Issue 103&nbsp;(2025) “Five Poems”Action, Spectacle&nbsp;(2024) “Champ commun” La Traductière: Poésie contemporaineet autres sensations forts 40 (2023) “Common Form” Provincetown Arts Issue 37 (2022) “Autobiography” Oversound Issue 7 (2022) “Tall Grasses” “Meanwhile in the Bountiful Next Door” OmniVerse (2019) “Softness” Volta Issue 48 (2019) “Home” jubilat Number 34 (2019) “Second Life” Volta Issue 47 (2019) “Fever” Ghost Town Issue 9 (2016) “Argument Diary” Talking River Issue 38&nbsp;(2015) “Before the Avant-Garde” American Poets Magazine (2014) “Means of Entering the Swarm”and four other poems West Branch Wired (Winter 2014) “Dolor Diary” Cerise Press (2012) “Improbable Ease in the Interior of Things” “You Say the World Disappoints Me” “Little Harm” Fishouse&nbsp;(2012) “Two poems” Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize (2011) “Last Sunday I Walked Deep into the Forest” “When We Were Leaky” Muthafucka 2&nbsp;(Summer 2010) “Poet’s Sampler” The Boston Review (2008) “Petal” The Best of the Net Anthology&nbsp;(2008) Left-Facing Bird (2008) Translations https://kwakyouna.com/Translations Thu, 19 May 2022 01:34:08 +0000 Kwak Youna https://kwakyouna.com/Translations TRANSLATIONS &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="329" height="499" width_o="329" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6560ce764dff21e94d92ea60f0c7457b16637552dea98edaa4ba4829a3236e9/daewoo-cover.jpg" data-mid="225467537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/329/i/c6560ce764dff21e94d92ea60f0c7457b16637552dea98edaa4ba4829a3236e9/daewoo-cover.jpg" /> Diágolos Press (2020) ¨ <img width="500" height="800" width_o="500" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94c217de26bc52c4ed9f88d34eca3a4f8d4532b145464de1a54d0e9168b27e4a/gardeners-cover.jpg" data-mid="225467565" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/94c217de26bc52c4ed9f88d34eca3a4f8d4532b145464de1a54d0e9168b27e4a/gardeners-cover.jpg" />Diágolos Press (2017) Poems: Marc AlynLinda Maria Baros Michel Butor François ChengFranck André Jamme Luis MizonNohad Salameh Franck Venaille Texts:Michel AuderLaurent BinetLucile BordesNicole BrenezBeeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art &amp; DesignThe Brooklyn RailCCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary ArtsFiction FranceHorizon ReviewThe Israel Museum, JerusalemBen LignelMarrakech BiennaleLê Quan NinhPleiades: Literature in ContextJo-ey TangLa TraductièreWarren Wilson CollegeMary Weatherford etc. Essays https://kwakyouna.com/Essays Thu, 19 May 2022 01:33:02 +0000 Kwak Youna https://kwakyouna.com/Essays ESSAYS “Out of Confinement: Creativity in Constraint”Special issue of Women in French Studies (2024)co-edited with Anne Brancky “Homonym: Error.” In&nbsp;She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader. Wendy’s Subway (2024) “Six Hundred Twenty-Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-Eight” Los Angeles Review (2023) “Many Times I Have Preferred to Walk the City Without Leaving a Trace” The Hopkins Review (2023)*”Notable” mention in Best American Essays 2024 “‘Moi, je n’ai rien eu’: the disappearances of Inès Cagnati” Women in French Studies (2023), 141-151. “Death Inside Poetry: Introduction to Kim Hyesoon” Poetry Foundation (2023) “Three Hundred Days: A Story of Likeness” The Spectacle Issue 11 (2022) “Answering the Call: Beyond Resistance and Liberation” Chicago Review: Contemporary Korean Poetry (Fall 2021), 100-13 “Memory’s Grammar, or the Silence of the Archives: Hélène Cixous Goes to Osnabrück” with Raphaël Sigal L’esprit créateur 61:2: The Documentary Mode/ Rhétoriques du document (Summer 2021), 98-110 “Disclosure Narratives, or: What Can Disclosure Do?” with Anne Brancky and Laura Hughes Modern Language Studies Vol. 50 No. 1 (Summer 2020), 12-23 “How to Read Barthes: Autobiography’s Intimacy Effect” French Forum Vol. 44 No. 3 (Winter 2019), 405-21 “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim et Don Mee Choi : Trois poètes,”&nbsp;“Chang-rae Lee” Po&amp;sie 139-140 : Spécial Corée (2012), 272-92 &nbsp; “This Having Been Earthly Seems Lasting” Harriet: The Poetry Foundation (2016) “You” The Offing, Los Angeles Review of Books (2015) “Avert Your Eyes: Roland Barthes and the Ethics of Intimacy” The Conversant: The Renaissance of Roland Barthes (2014) Collaborations: “The Hauntologists: In Between Séances,” curated by&nbsp;Julia Morandeira and Yen Noh, 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice (2022)“Mother Tongues: Between Translation,” The Quick and the Dead:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Seminar, Wendy’s Subway (2022) “The Afterlife, Part 4,” curated by Brandon Shimoda, futurefeed&nbsp;(2020) “What is Left,” curated by Le Gauche, Hors piste 4, Centre Pompidou (2014) “Water,” with Holly Corfield Carr, Likestarlings (2014) “Orison for the Forest,” curated by Violet Poe Projects,&nbsp;Kendra Paitz Gallery (2012) “Etienne D'Anget,” commissioned by The Beta Movement (2011)