Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received numerous fellowships and prizes: 2011 Whiting Award, 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2012 & 2019 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, 2019 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship, 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize for her translation of Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, and 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. She has served as a translator for the International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM). Please visit and learn about IWNAM’s transnational work and issues that impact women, children, and the environment.

Please use the following link to register for this event and receive the Zoom meeting information: https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAocO-hqDkvGdxRyFrPlcNpdd3_LE5MlKr9

Links to Online Work, Readings, and Interviews:

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/don-mee-choi#searchresults

http://www.donmeechoi.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oEN_JOnJE

Poetics Plus is a Poetics Program event series sponsored in part by the James H. McNulty Chair (Myung Mi Kim), The David Gray Chair of Poetry (Tyrone Williams) & the Department of English at University at Buffalo. The series is produced with the cooperation of the Poetry & Rare Books Collection, Rust Belt Books, Western New York Book Arts Center, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Fitz Books, & graduate students in the Poetics Program. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free & open to the public.