What Sparks Poetry is a series of original essays that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Other Arts, poets write about experiences in other arts and the making of poetry. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem and an excerpt from the essay.
                    Seoul, Korea, 2012

Image of the partly graphic poem, Home Ward (Seoul, Korea, 2012) by Cindy Juyoung Ok
from the journal THE MARGINS
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Cindy Juyoung Ok on Other Arts


"'Home Ward (Seoul, Korea, 2012)' approximates the physical layout of a room. My memory of the real room, one of the last where my grandfather stayed, is marked by the concentration of patient beds in a rectangular space that, if empty, I would have considered a wide hallway."
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