Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진
@jkwondobbs.bsky.social
mom, ajumma, poet @White Pine Press @hochroth Verlag @PalmArt Press, senior poetry editor @agnimagazine.bsky.social, translator, professor and assoc. dean, more at jkwondobbs.com
🔥NEW at AGNI Online🔥 "'The Border Moves Through Us': From Minneapolis, 2026," a scroll curated by Senior Poetry Editor @jkwondobbs.bsky.social. Read her introduction here👇 agnionline.bu.edu/blog/from-mi...
“The Border Moves Through Us”: From Minneapolis, 2026
To plan a route to pick up my child from school, I check iceout.org for a map of recent ICE sightings. They’ve multiplied in recent days, with the Federal occupation surging to 3,000 agents in Minneap...
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🌷🌷🌷 This coming Sunday afternoon, please join award-winning poet and my beloved colleague Diane LeBlanc and me at Content Books in Northfield where we’ll read new and published work. 🌷🌷🌷🌷 More details here: contentbookstore.com/events/28502...
✨✨✨Thrilled to partner with artist, teacher, and all-around fabulous person Kurt RuKim on this workshop where I’ll share some new poems and write with and in community to tackle our collective and individual truths. Deepest thanks to NPA and MSAB! ✨✨✨ Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/toward-tru...
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“Speakers in poems by Kazim Ali, CooXooEii Black, Amy Beeder, Hera Naguib, and Robert Pinsky gaze unflinchingly to counter the sturdiest myths.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
NewPages@newpages.bsky.social · last yr.AGNI 101 offers readers soaring gestures of imagination to match our inescapable world through essays, poems, and stories. Read more at NewPages! https://www.newpages.com/blog/magazines/magazine-stand/agni-101/ #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @AGNIMagazine
How my kiddo and I spent Saturday morning 😊
Welcome AGNI 101! Take a look at the beautiful cover by Palestinian painter Malak Mattar, and peek inside the issue here 👉 buff.ly/DsMenvn
✍️ AGNI at #AWP25 ✍️ 👉 Assistant poetry editor @izineh.bsky.social —Theories of Vastness: On Capaciousness in Poetry — 3:20pm — buff.ly/91sA1IA 👉 Senior poetry editor @jkwondobbs.bsky.social — On Translating Environmental Literature — 3:20pm — buff.ly/iLF0Lrd
2025 Conference Schedule
View the list of accepted events for the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair. AWP’s mission is to create space for all writers to be represented, and we are committed to supporting as diverse and…
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Minneapolis friends, here’s a novel and writer who you won’t want to miss! Event registration details for Shubha Sunder’s magnificent _Optional Practical Training_ are available here: www.magersandquinn.com/event/Shubha...
Thanks to @versedaily.bsky.social for all the ❤️ during the last days of December! ICYMI, 4 poems from AGNI were featured in a single week!
I’ve written a lot of things in the past decade but this list of tips on reading more books is the thing I continue to get the most messages about—a strong case for the importance of service journalism!
David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz · 2y agoMy number one New Year’s resolution is to basically live by this @knguyen.bsky.social article about how to read more books — especially replacing all my aimless scrolling with reading a few pages. (I will not be replacing podcasts, though. Podcasts rule.)
Grateful for the love of relations near and far and my ancestors’ embrace. I made soon dubu chigae with mushrooms foraged by my friend and her mom in the Pacific Northwest mountains. Thank you to this land on which I’m a guest for nourishing me. Gentleness and warmth to all these final days of 2024.
My little one is learning to make clay vessels with coils. The figurine is because sometimes a candy dish needs a helper. 😊
Happy Winter Solstice! May 동지 find you warm, peaceful, and held. www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Cu...
Celebrating winter solstice the traditional Korean way : Korea.net : The official website of the Republic of Korea
Dongji (동지, 冬至), the winter solstice and 22nd of the year’s 24 solar terms, falls this year on Dec. 22. This day has the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year.
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Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing Coedited by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Lee Herrick I am so grateful to have two pieces in this portfolio with so many writers & deep thinkers I admire. ✨💛✨ agnionline.bu.edu/portfolio/af...
“In burning thirst In burning thirst Democracy forever” —From Kim Chi-ha’s “In Burning Thirst” translated from the Korean by Jack Jung (originally posted on X) @daybreakjung.bsky.social
“‘I can’t believe I’m seeing a martial law declaration in my lifetime,’ said 30-year-old Bae, echoing the sentiments of many who are witnessing such an event for the first time.” m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=...
'Is this happening in 2024?' South Koreans in panic, disbelief
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law Tuesday night, sending shock waves through the nation. Made near at 10:25 p.m., the announcement has left citizens and experts alike...
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Thinking of this poem today by Joy Harjo. I first taught it at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles as an ABD adjunct in 2005. These stanzas and their tonal subtleties land with the emotional insight of ritual. Read the full poem here: poets.org/poem/perhaps...
This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...
I’ve long admired Kim Ki-taek’s poems. How marvelous to read this gripping translation by Jack Jung.
Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽@daybreakjung.bsky.social · 2y agoKim Ki-taek's poems often allow us to excavate extraordinary beauty in ordinary things. In his 2005 poem "Cow", he makes his characteristic move of seeing a creature that the world often ignores in a new way and gets us to think again about the meaning of the said being.
Each cabinet pick is a new fresh hell so here’s a poem from @agnimagazine.bsky.social 100 (!) about birds’ nests made from detritus, extreme weather, + swimming at summer camp. Remember ‘buddy check’? Let’s re-implement buddy check for the next few years maybe for, like, everything? #ecopoetry
AGNI Magazine is on Blue Sky! I love these lines from Paisley Rekdal's poem, "My Brother": "I want a brother to walk with me now through these woods, to stare with me into Death’s eyes, those glassy, winking flames." Read the full poem here: agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/my-br...
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Where is my brother? I am stunned, starving, staring into the mirror in the hopes of seeing a face other than mine gaze back. Where is my brother? Wasn’t I promised, once, never to be left alone, my p...
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Shuchi Saraswat@saraswat-s.bsky.social · 2y ago@agnimagazine.bsky.social is now here! give ‘em (us) a follow! 🔥
Playing with clay and dough with my kiddo ❤️😊❤️
