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Korean poet extraordinaire\u00a0Kim Yideum<\/strong> will read Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at the Hammes Bookstore on Notre Dame\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n Yideum will be reading simultaneously with one of her translators, Ji Yoon Lee<\/strong>, a recent graduate of the Notre Dame MFA in Poetry. They will be reading from Yideum’s Cheer Up Femme Fatale<\/em>, recently published in English by Action Books.<\/p>\n The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the author and translator:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ji Yoon Lee<\/strong> is the author of Foreigner\u2019s Folly<\/em> (Coconut Books, 2014),\u00a0Funsize\/Bitesize<\/em> (Birds of Lace, 2013), and IMMA<\/em> (Radioactive Moat,\u00a02012). She is the winner of the Joanna Cargill prize (2014), and her\u00a0manuscript was a finalist for the 1913 First Book Prize (2012). Her poems\u00a0and translations have appeared in Asymptote<\/em>, Eleveneleven<\/em>, The Volta<\/em>,\u00a0PANK<\/em>, Bambi Muse<\/em>, Seven Corners<\/em>, The YOLO Pages<\/em>, The Animated\u00a0Reader: Poetry of Surround Audience<\/em>, and &Now Awards 3<\/em>. She was born\u00a0in South Korea and came to the United States as a teen. She received her\u00a0MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This event is sure to be exciting and cheery. We hope to see you all there!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Kelsey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Korean poet extraordinaire\u00a0Kim Yideum will read Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at the Hammes Bookstore on Notre Dame\u2019s campus. Yideum will be reading simultaneously with one of her translators, Ji Yoon Lee, a recent graduate of the Notre Dame MFA in Poetry. They will be reading from Yideum’s Cheer Up Femme Fatale, recently published in English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKim Yideum\u00a0<\/strong>has published five books of poetry\u2014A Stain in the Shape of a Star\u00a0<\/em>(2005),\u00a0Cheer Up, Femme Fatale\u00a0<\/em>(2007),\u00a0The Unspeakable Lover\u00a0<\/em>(2011),\u00a0Song of Berlin, Dahlem\u00a0<\/em>(2013), and\u00a0Hysteria<\/em>\u00a0(2014). Her work has been adapted into a play (The Metamorphosis,\u00a0<\/em>2014) and a film (After School<\/em>, 2015). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry & the World Literary Award, the Kim Daljin Changwon Award, the 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0Century Literary Award, and the Kim Chunsoo Award. She teaches at Gyeongsang National University, works as a newspaper columnist, and hosts a poetry-themed radio program. Her first book in English translation, Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (translated by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes G\u00f6ransson) was published by Action Books earlier this year.<\/p>\n