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Cho Ji Hoon

Cho Ji Hoon (1920-1968) is a canonical poet of modern Korea and a renowned scholar of Korean aesthetics. Written in a modernist free-verse form, his poetry is deeply rooted in the literary Sijo that began in the 12th century, and has an authentic local flavor of pre-industrial Korea. Cho Ji Hoon’s first poem appeared in 1939, in the literary magazine MoonJang. In 1946, twelve of his poems appeared in the collection, Cheongnok Jip (청록집), along with the works of Park Mok-wol and Pak Doo-jin. The three were known as “Cheongnokpa,” or the “Green Deer Poets.” A professor of Korean language and literature at Korea University for 20 years, he published five poetry collections, as well as many books related to Korean literature and aesthetics. He received numerous literary awards.

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Sekyo Nam Haines

Born and raised in South Korea, Sekyo Nam Haines immigrated to the U.S. in 1973 as a registered nurse. She received her BA in American literature and writing at Goddard College Adult Degree Program. She continued her study of English literature at the Harvard Extension School and of poetry with the late Ottone M. Riccio in Boston, MA. Her first published book is entitled Bitter Seasons' Whip: The Translated Poems of Lee Yuk Sa (Tolsun Books, 2022). Her poems have appeared in Constellations, Off the Coast, and Lily Poetry Review. Her translations of Korean poetry by Cho Ji Hoon have appeared in Interim, Asymptote’s translation Tuesday blog, Guernica Magazine, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Sekyo lives in Cambridge.

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