Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border
Poetry Unbound5 Feb 2024

Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border

While disputes over contested lands result in damage that can be seen and documented, they also create countless unseen ruptures in the hearts, minds and souls of the humans caught in the chaos. By giving voice to yearning, Suji Kwock Kim’s poem “Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border” shows how bearing witness and asking the impossible are acts of profound courage, creativity, and defiance.

Suji Kwock Kim is a poet and playwright. Her debut poetry collection, Notes from the Divided Country (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), was the recipient of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and was also shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection is Notes from the North (The Poetry Business, 2022).

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

We’re pleased to offer Suji Kwock Kim’s poem, and invite you to read Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound book, or listen back to all our episodes.


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(225)

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder

After listening to this exuberant interview, you’ll retire the phrase “lost in translation” from your vocabulary. Instead, writer and scholar Karen Leeder believes poetry can expand when  translated, ...

7 Aug 40min

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott

“Poetry means paying attention in a different way to the world and seeing what wisdom you're given back in return for that attention,” says Richard Scott in this conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama, rec...

24 Jul 51min

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2

“It had to involve more than just a slim volume of verse,” says Kimberly Campanello about MOTHERBABYHOME, her ongoing visual poetry project which centers the 796 infants and children who died at the S...

10 Jul 38min

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2

“It's about seeing, through reading, whether where you are going has been or is now or will be written, or not.” This deliciously twisty line is from Kimberly Campanello’s ongoing versioning of Dante’...

26 Jun 50min

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Rachel Mann and Yomi Ṣode

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Rachel Mann and Yomi Ṣode

“Poetry should be horrifying,” says Rachel Mann. “It should be … on the edge of the edge of what could be said.” We are delighted to bring you this vibrant conversation featuring Rachel and Yomi Ṣode ...

12 Jun 55min

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Fady Joudah

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Fady Joudah

From a young age, says Palestinian American poet and physician Fady Joudah, “I had such a fascination with the way the alphabet makes music in the mind.” We are thrilled to offer this thoughtful conve...

29 Mai 46min

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Don McKay

Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Don McKay

“I still have the best three-point shot of any Canadian poet born before 1943” is one of the first things that acclaimed poet Don McKay says in this expansive and intimate exchange. We are thrilled to...

15 Mai 45min

Poetry Unbound Bonus — Walter de la Mare

Poetry Unbound Bonus — Walter de la Mare

Host Pádraig Ó Tuama shares “The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare, a favorite childhood poem of his, and offers an audio postscript to Season 10 of Poetry Unbound. Later in 2026, he will bring us more ...

9 Mar 9min

Populært innen Samfunn

rss-spartsklubben
giver-og-gjengen-vg
konspirasjonspodden
aftenpodden
popradet
rss-henlagt-andy-larsgaard
rss-nesten-hele-uka-med-lepperod
alt-fortalt
bokmerket-2
wolfgang-wee-uncut
grenselos
fladseth
rss-dette-ma-aldri-skje-igjen
aftenpodden-usa
rss-siktet
frokostshowet-pa-p5
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
rss-herrepanelet
198-land-med-einar-trnquist
den-politiske-situasjonen