‘TWIN FLOWER, MASTER, EMILY’ AND ‘DEAD YOUTH, OR THE LEAKS’

A poetry event with Don Mee Choi and Joyelle McSweeney, in two parts:
A screening of a video by Paul Cunningham of Don Mee Choi’s poem ‘Twin Flower, Master, Emily’ in Spanish translation by Valerie Mejer Caso and Josefa Gonzalez
A group reading of Joyelle McSweeney’s play ‘Dead Youth, or The Leaks’
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Joyelle McSweeney is a poet, prose writer, playwright, critic, and publisher based in Notre Dame, Indiana. McSweeney’s scholarly, poetic, and teaching interests include voice, sound, performance, genre, narrative and dramatic form, politics, media, violence, diction, translation, the Gothic, and the necropastoral. Her recent book, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (University of Michigan Press, 2014), examines the way writing moves among genres, languages, media, and materials against a backdrop of goth/Anthropocene ecopoetics. Her play Dead Youth, or, The Leaks won the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Playwrights. McSweeney is the author of six books of poetry and prose, most of which also contain plays, most recently Salamandrine: 8 Gothics (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2012) and Percussion Grenade (Fence Books, 2012). With Johannes Göransson, McSweeney founded and edits Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation.

Don Mee Choi is a poet, translator, scholar, and artist who grew up in Seoul and Hong Kong and now lives in Seattle. She is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), the editor of Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women (Zephyr Press, 2006), and a recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writer’s Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Choi has translated several books by Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, most recently Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, published by Action Books.

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Earlier in the day, at 2pm at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at University of
Washington Seattle, Joyelle McSweeney will be giving a talk on the Necropastoral and
participating in a discussion on poetics with Don Mee Choi.