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    Official Schedule:  Reading at the Brooklyn Public Library
    jiwonny
    • Aug 9

    Official Schedule: Reading at the Brooklyn Public Library

    Reading at my local library branch, Park Slope, with Caroline Hagood and Joanna Fuhrman. August 18th @6pm. It's just one of those...
    Loud As F**K on Flatbush: Poets Read in the Garden
    jiwonny
    • Jul 22

    Loud As F**K on Flatbush: Poets Read in the Garden

    Yes, that's Flatbush, Brooklyn. Yes, it will be loud, but we are going to lean into it. August 14th @5pm. Listen to poetry in the...
    Reading Live: Thanks Joanna Fuhrman!
    jiwonny
    • Jul 16

    Reading Live: Thanks Joanna Fuhrman!

    Late June, at Le Petit Versailles Garden on the Lower East Side, gathering to celebrate Joanna Fuhrman's birthday and most recent...
    Leaving Day, 1972
    jiwonny
    • Jul 6

    Leaving Day, 1972

    I come from a big family. You wouldn’t know it though because we were so alone on 107th between Broadway and Amsterdam. Look at these...
    My Book Geek Moment
    jiwonny
    • Jun 30

    My Book Geek Moment

    I cannot lie, I did a jig of glee when I found out that Books Are Magic would carry I USED TO BE KOREAN in their bookstore. They made...
    Brooklyn Poets Read in the Garden
    jiwonny
    • Jun 20

    Brooklyn Poets Read in the Garden

    Alexandra Dine, Nina Hook, Jiwon Choi wearing our hearts on our sleeves... Themes of loss, displacement, identity on display at the...
    Brooklyn, You're Welcome
    jiwonny
    • Jun 9

    Brooklyn, You're Welcome

    On behalf of Mississippi John Hurt, Caroline Hagood, Alexandra Dine, Nina Hook & Jiwon Choi we welcome you to hear us read our good words...
    I Ate Your Sorrow: Writing on PTSD
    jiwonny
    • Jun 2

    I Ate Your Sorrow: Writing on PTSD

    If you have ever asked yourself if you are depressed and couldn't answer, think about the history of your experiences and don't be...
    O, Snap!
    jiwonny
    • May 25

    O, Snap!

    June 1st at the Cypress Inn Café, Ridgewood, Queens is where I'll be! Starts at 8, don't be late! Curated and co-hosted by Alexandra Dine.
    Indie Lit Fair Reading @ PEN America World Voices Festival
    jiwonny
    • May 19

    Indie Lit Fair Reading @ PEN America World Voices Festival

    The Indie Lit Fair, a part of PEN America's World Voices Festival took place on May 14th at Washington Square Park, NYC. Dudes, what an...

    My Poets

    Gerard Manley Hopkins.  Langston Hughes.  

    Bruce Springsteen.  Ai.

    Lucille Clifton.  Mary Oliver. Patrick Cavanaugh. 

    Robert Herrick.  Robert Frost.   

    Carl Sandburg.   Issa. 

    Sonia Sanchez.  Rumi.

    Donny Hathaway. 

    Duke Ellington. 

    Charles Bukowski. 

     

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    Philip Levine.    Louise Bogan.   

    Robert Hershon.   Basho.

    Yusef Komunyakaa. 
    Henry Dumas.   Terrance Hayes. 

    Anne Carson.   Buson.   

    Lois-Ann Yamanaka.  Paul Violi. 

    Anne Sexton.   Neil Young.  

    Johnny Hartman.   Sylvia Plath.

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    John Coltrane. Jimi Hendrix. 

    Billie Holiday.  Nikki Giovanni. 

    Octavio Paz.  Pablo Neruda.  

    Jean-Michel Basquiat. 

    Denise Levertov.    Ko Un.

    Gwendolyn Brooks. 

    Woody Guthrie.  Jack Aguerös.

    Martin Espada.

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