This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Kimiko Hahn, who won the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and who is featured in the October 2023 issue of Poetry. Hahn talks about how her work has changed over the years, including her current love of form, and how she’s been mentoring her younger self while putting together her forthcoming new and selected, The Ghost Forest (W.W. Norton). She also discusses being wrong about Elizabeth Bishop, not getting an MFA, and what it was like studying at the University of Iowa as an undergraduate while the graduate program was filled with now-canonical poets like Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Tess Gallagher, and others. Hahn shares two of her incredible poems from the October issue with listeners.
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Elisa Gabbert and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Self-Pity, Death, and the Internet
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Donika Kelly and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Desire Paths, Therapy, and Pleasure
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Brian Tierney and Charif Shanahan on Poetry as a Verb, Truth vs Fact, and Love
Marie Howe and Charif Shanahan on Ecopoetics, Spirituality, and Losing Oneself
CAConrad and Hoa Nguyen on Crystals, Crows, and Cannibalizing Poems
Arthur Sze and Forrest Gander on Silence, the Importance of Blank Pages, and How Every Poem Written Shines a Light on Every Other Poem
Nam Le and Lindsay Garbutt on Language as an Ecology of Violence and Corruption, the Pain of Being a Writer, and the Value of Uncertainty
KB Brookins and Holly Amos on Systemic Freedom, the Power of Insistence, and What People Don’t Understand about Texas
Joanna Klink and Holly Amos on psychic longing, attention and attunement, and their differing childhood dinner tables
Charif Shanahan and Adrian Matejka on the shifting of identity, oneness, and centering love
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