Sun Yung Shin’shas recently published work in journals and anthologies such as Encyclopedia: Volumes I and II, Drunken Boat,and Cerise Press. Her poem “Which Way | Kichicheon | Yankeetown” was recently nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize; she is a 2010 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for Literature; in 2008 she received the Asian American […]
“Sometimes the surface forms defy etymology.” In place of reading, two doors open away from each other. Door—paper—door— One spine bends along a radius of one. Finger bones like wingspan of flightless bird. Travel advisory to the following nations: Date on the red book from Korea, year prior to birth, folk tales, year of gestation, […]
That we each have a number assigned to us Thanks be to the devil for the idea of sequence That we each have forgotten our numbers Thanks be to the gods for a child’s memory That we each have a name, or three, assigned to us Thanks be to the devil for sound marrying sense […]
I laid my childhood to rest at the end of the tracks of the twentieth century Like Hansel’s breadcrumbs And they were eaten by birds and small, wild animals A deer caressed his three-pronged antler against the mossy bark at the edge of the forest He was too great from crumbs He was too slow […]
Sun Yung Shin talks about what she finds to be the most pleasurable aspect of writing.
Sun Yung Shin’shas recently published work in journals and anthologies such as Encyclopedia: Volumes I and II, Drunken Boat, and Cerise Press. Her poem “Which Way | Kichicheon | Yankeetown” was recently nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize; she is a 2010 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for Literature; in 2008 she […]