# Don Mee Choi

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Srikanth Reddy in Conversation with Don Mee Choi

Srikanth Reddy first encountered the complex poetic world of Don Mee Choi as a translator of avant-garde Korean poetry before reading Choi’s own poetry. As a poet, Choi invites readers into her personal history—which is also the history of her father and of war. Even if you haven’t read Choi’s poe‮…

Macro + Micro: The Publishing Process

In Episode #2 of Translators Note, we take a closer look at three translated books published this past year, and the processes, trends, and intercultural dynamics at play as a translation project enters the world. Jack Jung, translator of Yi Sang: Selected Works (ed. Don Mee Choi, Wave Books 2020)‮…

Kim Hye-soon/Phantom Pain Wings (김혜순/날개 환상통)

Introducing three poems in Kim Hye-soon's collection of poems [Phantom Pain Wings], we talk about death and loss. Translated by Don Mee Choi

Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)

The second in a series of conversations about the poet Alice Notley, who passed away on May 19, 2025. The poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joins the podcast to talk about selections from Notley's epic The Descent of Alette.  (A brief note on audio quality: we listen to three recordings of Notley ‮…

Episode 9: Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Göransson - “Keeping Things Lit”

Join us for an inspiring session with Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson, editors and founders of Action Books—as well as poets, translators, and critics who have given us books like Toxicon & Arachne and The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (McSweeney), Summer and Transgressive Circula‮…

Gwangju Then and Now

Gwangju, a major city in southwestern South Korea, has beenwidely recognized as a center of civil resistance since May 1980, when a brutal military crackdown targeted citizens protesting against dictatorship.   Written by Hieyoon Kim. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B.Breyfogle. Video production by Han‮…

Kim Hyesoon & Will Harris: Autobiography of Death

Kim Hyesoon is one South Korea’s foremost poets. Her groundbreaking and radically feminist poetry – ‘a transnational collision of shamanism, Modernism, and feminism’ (Griffin Prize Judges) – has been translated into English by poet Don Mee Choi for over a decade. We celebrate the latest of these ‮…

Episode 34: Beat Down the Barriers: Jennifer Scappettone on “Poetry After Barbarism”

In episode #34 I talk with poet, artist, translator and scholar Jennifer Scappettone about her new book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, in which she explores the power of a planetary, xenoglossic poetry of resistance—which is to say, a polygl‮…