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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.
Adam O. Davis is the author of
Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. The recipient of the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, his work has recently appeared in
The Believer, The Cincinnati Review,
New Ohio Review, and
Poetry Review. He lives in San Diego, California, where he teaches at The Bishop’s School. More at www.adamodavis.com.
INTRODUCTION
The most important work any poet does is done on the page. Despite all claims otherwise, poets are mechanics, not magicians, and what makes us what we are is the tinkering, the testing, the troubleshooting. I love that work. Especially now, I take such comfort in the sanctity of the page. There I’m alone, adrift in possibility, nothing but an echo with ink, and there I must prove again and anew what I am and what I can do. A poet is not a poet without poems. The work is all and everything that matters.