Featured Books
Discover the latest works from Jiwon Choi
One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons
"Pissed-off, stripped down, and deadly accurate, these poems spare no one." - Joan Larkin
I Used To Be Korean
"The poet’s ‘rosebud power’ and honesty are dynamic, as is her grasp of history, family, identity, and eros." - Linda Norton
A Temporary Dwelling
"A Temporary Dwelling is a stunning meditation on the body, grief, and place." – Jordan E. Franklin
Featured Articles
Writing through place, loss, and belonging
"Creatures of Culture and Perpetrators of Civilization": Jiwon Choi Talks with Editors of Color in the Landscape of Modern Publishing
A 2015 Lee & Low diversity survey found that 79% of publishing industry workers were White. Tracing this gatekeeping back to the early 20th-century Publisher's Lunch Club — whose members saw themselves as "creators of culture and perpetrators of civilization" — Jiwon Choi speaks with editors of color about what has, and hasn't, changed.
Author's Note on A Temporary Dwelling
I can't say that I was feeling overtly political during the drafting of A Temporary Dwelling, my third poetry collection (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024), but I do acknowledge that I am distrustful of the Mainstream Culture seeing how it tries to jam unhelpful messages through my keyhole. A slightly contradictory statement coming from someone whose childhood was taken up with voraciously imbibing what the MC had to offer, primarily in TV form whilst waiting for the parents to get home. Yes, I was a child in the clutches of popular culture's long arms and sharp talons. Still a wee bit in awe of it.