The Poetry Magazine Podcast · Poetry Foundation
Kimiko Hahn and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Mentoring Your Younger Poet-Self and More
·56 min·5 clips
Kimiko Hahn started crying when she won a lifetime achievement award, seeing it as a look back and forward.
As heard by us
A layered conversation about lineage, language, and poetry as something continually remade.
The discussion follows Kimiko Hahn across family, form, gender, and the long stretch of her writing life. It is strongest when it moves from grandmothers and grandchildren to the Heian women writers she admires, then into language, body, and disturbance.
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