🎀🎺 Join us at Accent Sisters 重音社 to celebrate the launch of Stine An's debut poetry collection B-Dragon Suite (Nightboat Books), a hybrid poetry collection that remixes K-pop, experimental translation, sound art, and emoji poetics to explore Korean diasporic identity.
Stine will be joined by poet Rosanna Young Oh for readings and a conversation.
Doors @ 6:30 PM
Start @ 7 PM with readings followed by a conversation + Q&A
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About the readers
Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (2025), Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung (2026), S_MMER CR_SH (2025), and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (2024). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite (2026), won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Rosanna Young Oh is the author of The Corrected Version (2023),which won the North American Poetry Book Award judged by Lisa Russ Spaar. She is also the winner of BOMBMagazine's 2026 Poetry Contest, and her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Drift, Oxford Poetry, and The Yale Review. A graduate of Yale (B.A.), the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins (M.F.A.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A.), Rosanna lives on Long Island. She has taught at Poets House, the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island, and at the City College of New York, CUNY, where she is currently The Bill & Doris Lippman Visiting Poet.
About the book
Named a “Must-Read Queer Book” of 2026 by Language Arts newsletter
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.
Advance praise
"Stine An’s B-Dragon Suite shines forth from the crossroads of a transcultural, multilingual imaginary that bridges K-pop and poetry with a fierce, singular, poetics. Rich with cross-cultural sonorities and perspectives, the poems espouse sharp collisions—or slippages—between the US and Korea, poetry and music, translation and multilingualism, grief and resistance. This book threads hard histories into the needle of the present day, rewiring them into a poetic coup d’etat. It’s a maximalist, hyper-sensual, energizing treat, revealing the sinuousness of our globalized moment: some call it soft power, but the punches are very real."
—Sawako Nakayasu
"Bridging South Korea and Korean America, Kafka and K-pop, Stine An’s B-Dragon Suite is a revelatory libretto for the absurdist afterlives of modernity-coloniality. In this dazzling debut, An queers, camps, tickles, and remixes language into a series of shimmering anti-translations, transforming a journey through the underworld into candy-coated spectacles of visual poetry. Accompanied through this mirror world by Lil Bang, “your favorite soft power ethno-nationalist global sensation pop boy band,” we watch as “bomb” bubbles into the balms and blossoms of bom (spring), as gutters fill with dreams of a lemon-flavored limitlessness. Underneath it all, a troubling question pulsates: “But has anyone told you what it costs to make it back out of the underworld just to perform your role well enough to save others?” In conversation with a rich tradition of feminist Asian/American avant-garde poetic practice, B-Dragon Suite is both highly referential and wholly original; an intoxicating, brain-scratching joyride that is also deeply moving."
—Franny Choi
"B-Dragon Suite is a book unlike anything you’ve read before—part K-pop performance notes, part emoji poetry, part meditation on the politics of language, wandering flowers, breastfeeding, dew, the infinity of Kafka’s lemonade, and the brutality of the Korean War. In this explosive debut, poet-translator Stine An playfully enacts a poetics of the b-side. B-Dragon Suite is an irreverent and thrilling chorus of voices and languages, a diaspora-song in a minor key sung from the marginal space of the underworld."
—Jackie Wang