Kundiman New Books Reading: Stine An, Noah Arhm Choi (in honor of Theo LeGro), Benedict Nguyễn, and Bobuq Sayed 

Friday, September 18, 5pm

A reading by Stine An, Noah Arhm Choi (in honor of Theo LeGro), Benedict Nguyễn, and Bobuq Sayed  followed by a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson. Co-sponsored with Kundiman, a national organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American creative writing.

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This debut book of poetry treats translation as play, performance, and embodied sound. Across seven interlinked sections, Stine An stages a fabulated K-pop universe, complete with boy band LIL BANG and girl group The Pink Blossoms, alongside lyric poems and prose meditations that code-switch between Korean and English. The book situates K-pop as both pleasure engine and cultural archive, asking how language survives colonial history, migration, and spectacle without resolving into easy consumption.

Club Wonder is BACK with this incredible lineup of readers

!! join us @seventhheaven.bar to hear work from Izzy Casey ("Queen of the Little Stinkers," winner of the @nightboat_books 2025 poetry prize), Stine An ("B-Dragon Suite," forthcoming with @nightboat_books + 5 other fabulous poetry collections), Angie Sijun Lou (fiction + poetry published in @joylandpublishing, @bombmag, @poetry_project, and more), and Yasmin Adele Majeed ("Side Streams, forthcoming with @littlebrown).

Huge news for language lovers everywhere. Free as always, followed by karaoke. See you there xx

celebrate 1 year of emdash with us on july 25th 3pm at coordinates 40.68507° N, 73.89097° W

our special anniversary reading features the incredible: Stine An @gregorspamsa, Messiah Cristine, Lucie Xinyue Huang @lucie.xinyue.huang

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A new reading series by the team behind @shoegazelit.

June dream pop is in two weeks! schools are out summers in swing and we're ready to hang out <3 this will be our last dream pop until SEPTEMBER so come celebrate with some sake and some fantastic work by some top notch writers <3

Join us for a poetry reading for the closing reception of Suki Seokyeong Kang: Our Spring | 12 March – 25 April 2026 featuring Stine An, Yoo Heekyung, Hua Xi, and Paloma Yannakakis. Organized by Soje.

Across Languages: New Voices in Korean Poetry brings together acclaimed South Korean poets Lee Jenny, Yoo Heekyung, Oh Eun, and Shin Hae-uk with award-winning literary translators Archana Madhavan and Stine An, for a Korean–English bilingual reading and conversation to share the dynamism and innovations of language in Korean poetry culture.

Join Lee Jenny, Yoo Heekyung, Stine An, and Archana Madhavan as we explore why Korean society craves poetry so deeply. They’ll also examine the unique history and environment surrounding Korean poetry that allowed poets such as Kim Hyesoon, Han Kang, Lee Seong-bok, and Yi Sang to emerge from within literature written in Korean, a minority language. You too may find yourself captivated by the charms of Korean poetry.

Come experience the poetry of two contemporary Korean poets in this bilingual reading: Lee Jenny, who has pushed Korean poetry to new horizons by shaping waves of language into poetic, auditory rhythms that go beyond meaning; and Yoo Heekyung who is well known for revealing the strangeness of the world through the unfamiliar feelings and sensations found in our daily lives.

This roundtable gathers poets and poet-translators working in Korean, English, German, and French to explore writing concurrently in multiple languages without assuming equivalence or other normative translation ideas. Each participant will open with a brief reading, then discuss how their multilingual practices are shaped by their values, identities, and politics.