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Congratulations to 2017 Walt Whitman Award winner @jennymxie and to all the poets and authors on being long-listed for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award! @PENamerican https://t.co/VbLtcthJ0S
"We need to write now, write well—tell the truth in all its messy complexity. It’s our best shot at helping to preserve a democracy in which facts still exist and all of us can speak freely."
@Egangoonsquad on the importance of writers. https://t.co/Y3TQchkBgI
"My encounter with Kim Hyesoon’s poetry was not a chance encounter; it was already in the works on a collective level."
In 2015 @EmilyYoon spoke with @DonMeeChoi on translating Kim Hyesoon's poetry, newly longlisted for a 2019 @PENamerican award https://t.co/R86mWKMcVm