September 2011
1 post
The Whistling Fire →
Click this link to read a poem of mine called “The Anticipated Response,” published in the online journal, The Whistling Fire.
July 2011
1 post
May 2011
0 posts
AWP Panel Proposal Submitted!
Just minutes ago, I submitted my AWP panel proposal for next year’s conference in Chicago. It’s called “Where Veganism and Writing Intersect: A Reading and Discussion,” and includes three amazing writers: Adam Gnade, Ocean Vuong, and Monica Wendel. Stay tuned for whether or not it gets accepted!
April 2011
3 posts
My Turnstyle Reading is tomorrow!
Dear Turnstyle Fans, This is a quick reminder to attend the FINAL reading of the Spring 2011 Turnstyle Reading Series. The reading will take place on Thursday, April 7th in the Segal Theater at the Center for Humanities, located at 365 5th Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan. The readings start at 6:30pm sharp, and tend to be very well attended.. We welcome you to come and to invite all of...
Poetry Foundation Article →
I’m hearing lots of excellent feedback regarding Poets on Adoption, including some very kind words from old and new friends. Eileen Tabios sent me this particular response today. Here, Alan Gilbert describes many of the finer points for the Poetry Foundation website.
Poets on Adoption →
Check out my responses to Eileen Tabios’s questions on adoption. Here is a wonderful array of adoption experiences from adoptees to birth mothers to siblings of adoptees, and much more! I’m so happy to be a part of it.
March 2011
2 posts
A blog entry about my panel! →
I came across this when I googled my name (yes, I’m a bit of a narcissist, but hasn’t everyone done this before?)…anyway, what a lovely surprise! Usually, searching my name only reveals some elusive DJ Dana (okay it’s not the first time I’ve done it…).
February 2011
2 posts
AWP!
Here is a photo of me reading my poetry.
Seated to my right are my fellow adoptee poets, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs & Lee Herrick.
What a wonderful event!
AWP
Please come to my AWP panel today:
Finding Identity in Cultural Margins, A Reading and Discussion on Transracial Adoption
Featuring: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Lee Herrick, and yours truly!
Lantern Review recommends you go in their guide to AWP, so now you have to!
June 2010
1 post
Amazon Review
Amazon Review on Outsiders Within that 3 of 3 people found helpful!:
I am an adult Korean adoptee and I am so grateful for this book. It doesn’t explicitly pronounce judgment on adoption, but instead it represents its history, consequences & controversies through anecdotal evidence by adoptees themselves. These adoptee writers are diverse, representing countries from Korea to El...
April 2010
2 posts
Korean Adoptee Returns to Seoul
By Lee Herrick
How can I tell you that my wife and I slept
behind three temples and some vendors flapping the Korea Times at the flies on the durian that in this racing city, the sleek Lexus races down fast lanes, past skyrise malls and sidewalk food stalls while the old men call it a day and do not notice me at all, a Korean adoptee smelling Seoul for the first time in the thirty years? The...
“Exuberance is beauty.”
– William Blake
December 2009
1 post
1/31-Bird Sighting
I’m reading Into the Wild on the couch. Out the window, it is snowing. As the story progresses, the snow tapers out. I am reading accounts of solitary experiences in nature. The different ways in which men have been drawn away from structured existence and towards uncultivated wilderness and its subsequent acts of spontaneity. I weigh and balance the two opposed philosophies of life....