Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere
Purchase: Antibody (River River Books) by Elane Kim
Read: The Body As Archive, a review of Antibody by Leah Choi (Harvard Crimson) and Kim’s poem “Respite” (Poetry Foundation)
Elane Kim is a Korean American writer from California. The editor-in-chief of Gaia Lit, she is the recipient of the 2024 Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Columbia Journal Winter Poetry Contest, and a Davidson Fellow in Literature. Her writing can be found in Poetry, Narrative Magazine, One Teen Story, and more. She is the author of Postcards (Bull City Press, 2022) and a student at Harvard College.
Recommended Reading:
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Volta (wikipedia)
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (with free, downloadable text, at Folger Library)
Of Poetry Podcast 