The
Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. Today’s feature is Jihyun Yun and her debut collection
Some Are Always Hungry (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and which Ada Limón calls “a reckoning with immigration and historical trauma and rooted in the sensorial world, these poems are timeless and ongoing.” A Fulbright research grant recipient, she has received degrees from the University of California–Davis and New York University. Her work has appeared in
Narrative Magazine,
Poetry Northwest,
Lannie Stabile
(she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry; the winning chapbook,
Strange Furniture, is out with Neon Hemlock Press. She is also a back-to-back finalist for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Glass Chapbook Series and back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 and 2019 Chapbook Contests. Lannie currently holds the position of Managing Editor at
Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective. Find her on Twitter @LannieStabile.
INTRODUCTION
Poetry is always teaching me something. When I became an editor with
Barren Magazine, I quickly realized reading someone else’s art vastly improved my own. Submitters introduced me to forms I never knew existed and made me want to try my own hand at it. Like pantoums. I didn’t know what the hell a pantoum was until I read one in the slush pile.