"The Poet Who Taught Me to Be in Love With the World"
"O’Hara’s poems have an intoxicating swagger. Even whipsawed by snow, by city traffic, by volatile love affairs, he displays a deep delightedness. Getting his heart broken only makes him more adventurous; he’s just happy he can be the first person to take you to the Frick; he’s grateful he gets to 'drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much.'"
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Audsley on Suji Kwock Kim's Notes from the Divided Country
"It was 2011, at The Frost Place Conference on Poetry after Vievee Francis’s talk. Afterward, when I became a bit emotional—her talk opened me up; the best talks do; I cried—she looked at me and told me to read Suji Kwock Kim, to search out and to read poetry by Korean/Korean American poets. As an adoptee, born in South Korea and raised in rural Vermont, this was a decisive moment for me." |
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