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MYUNG MI KIM
Department of English 117 Bedford Ave.
University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, NY 14216
306 Clemens Hall (716) 447-2973
Buffalo, NY 14260
EDUCATION
M.F.A. English/Creative Writing, The University of Iowa, 1986.
M.A. The Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, 1981.
B.A. Independent Major, Oberlin College, 1979.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo, SUNY (2002 – present.)
James H. McNulty Chair of English (2016-present.) Director, Poetics Program (2015 – 2018)
(Fall 2014) (Fall 2008 – Spring 2011.)
Professor, Creative Writing Department, San Francisco State University (1991-2002)
Acting Chair (Spring 2001 and Fall 1996)
Distinguished Poet in Residence, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA (Spring 2001)
Visiting Professor, Oberlin College (Fall 1995)
Director, Student Support Services, Luther College, Decorah, IA (1987-1991)
Teaching-Writing Fellow, The University of Iowa (1984-1986)
English Teacher, Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY (1983-1984)
Instructor, English as a Second Language, Chinatown Manpower Project, New York, NY (1981-1982)
Teaching Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University (1980-1981)
PUBLICATIONS
Books of Poetry
Civil Bound. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2019.
Penury. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2009.
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Commons. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2002.
DURA. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1998.
New York: Nightboat Books, 2008.
The Bounty. Minneapolis: Chax Press, 1996, 2000.
Under Flag. Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 1991, l998, 2008, 2011.
Books in Translation
DURA. Spanish edition. Guadalajara: Mantis Editores, forthcoming.
Chapbooks
From Civil Bound, Oakland: Compline, (forthcoming)
River Antes. Buffalo: Atticus Finch, 2006.
Fell. New York: Belladonna Books, 2006.
Spelt. San Francisco: a+ bend press, 1999.
Books Edited
Best Experimental American Poetry 2018, Wesleyan University Press. Fall, 2018.
Poetics and Precarity: in the series The Creeley Lectures on Poetics and Poetry. Co-edited with Cristanne Miller.
SUNY Press. March, 2018.
In Anthologies
From Civil Bound, Responses, New Writing, Flesh, Nightboat Books, forthcoming.
“Under Flag,” A Sulfur Anthology. Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming.
“Ear Turned Toward Emergent,” [Charles Bernstein interviews Myung Mi Kim] Buffalo Poetry and Poetics: A
History of Innovative Writing, Lake Forest Press/Northeastern University Press, 2020.
From Civil Bound, To Gather Your Leaving: Asian Diaspora Poetry from America, Australia, UK, and Europe,
Ethos Books, 2019.
From Penury, Quo Anima: Innovation and Spirituality in Contemporary Women’s Poetry, University of Akron
Press, 2019.
From Commons, A TransPacific Poetics. Litmus Press, 2017.
From Civil Bound, Best American Experimental Writing [BAX] 2016, Wesleyan University Press.
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From Commons, Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by North American and U.K. Women.
Reality Street (Hastings, England), 2015.
“Moving Across Languages, Borders, Cultures,” Cross Worlds, Transcultural Poetics. Coffee
House Press, 2014.
From Penury and “Into Such Assembly,” Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.
W.W. Norton and Company, 2013.
From Penury and Commons, American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. W.W. Norton
and Company, 2009.
From Commons, American Poets in the 21st century: The New American Poetics. Wesleyan University
Press, 2007.
“Into Such Assembly," Asian-American Literature: An Anthology. NTC Publishing Group, 2000.
From The Bounty, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women. Talisman House
Press, l998.
From DURA, Making More Waves. Beacon Press, 1997.
"Into Such Assembly," "Rose of Sharon," Literary Mosaic: Asian-American Literature, HarperCollins, 1996.
From The Bounty, The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry. Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
From The Bounty, Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Talisman House, 1996.
"Anna O Addendum," Premonitions: The KAYA Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry.
Kaya Productions, 1995.
"Primer," The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry. Sun & Moon Press, 1995.
From DURA. writing away here: a Korean/American Anthology, October 1994.
"Into Such Assembly," "Rose of Sharon," The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian-American Women's Anthology.
Calyx Books, 1989.
In Journals (selected)
From Civil Bound, Poetry Project Poems and Texts (February, 2020.)
From Civil Bound, Poetry, (Summer 2017.)
From Civil Bound, Aufgabe, (2010.)
From Civil Bound, Hambone, No.19 (Fall 2009): 143-151.
From Civil Bound, Interval(le)s, CIPA (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée),
http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/intervalles4/contentsinter4.php (February 2009)
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From Penury, big bridge # 12, www.bigbridge.org (Fall 2006).
From Penury, boundary 2, (Summer 2006): 37-40.
Translations from Lee Seong Bok's Ah, Those Without, Mouths, Words Without Borders,
www.wordswithoutborders.org (Fall 2005).
From Penury, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, (2003): 21-26.
From Penury, Conjunctions, (Fall 2001): 433-437.
“Anacrusis," text of a talk given at “Page Mothers Conference," University of California at
San Diego, how 2, http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_ center/how2
From Spelt, Chain 6, (Summer l999): 88-96.
From Commons, Five Fingers Review l8, (l999): 91-92.
From Commons, Conjunctions, (Spring l999): 299-306.
From Commons, Proliferation 5, (l999): unpaginated.
From Commons, Chain 5, (Summer l998): l09-ll0.
"Exordium," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, (Winter l996): 417- 419.
From DURA, Sulfur 36, (Spring 1995): 72-80.
From DURA, Conjunctions 24, (1995): 153-58.
From DURA, Exact Change Yearbook 1995 (September 1995): 389-91.
From DURA, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, (Winter 1994): 538-41.
From DURA, Avec 7 (January 1994): 89-93.
From The Bounty, Hambone 11, (Spring 1994): 64-68.
"Primer," Conjunctions, (Fall 1993): 52-60.
From "Anna O Addendum," Writing from the New Coast: Presentation, o-blek Editions (Fall 1993): 154-156.
"Field of Inquiry," Writing from the New Coast: Technique, o-blek Editions (Fall l993): 175-77.
From The Bounty, Avec 6 (Spring 1993): 133-35.
From The Bounty, Notus (Fall 1992): 90-93.
From The Bounty, Black Bread, (Spring 1992): 44-47.
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From The Bounty, lyric &, (Spring 1992): unpaginated.
"The Site of the Capital," International Examiner, (March 1992): 17.
"Food, Shelter, Clothing," Zyzzyva (Fall 1991): 111-15.
"Under Flag", "Demarcation," Sulfur (Fall 1991): 132-37.
"From A Far: Reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE," How(ever) vol. 4, no. 4, (l99l).
"From the Sea on to the Land," How(ever) vol. 3, no. 2 (1990).
"Body As One As History," f.(lip),Vancouver, Canada (Fall 1989).
"And Sing We," "These Fishing Two," Ironwood 30, (Fall 1987): 178-80.
"Father Hat," Ironwood 29 (Spring 1987): 145.
HONORS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
Geoffrey Marshall Graduate Mentoring Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (2021)
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award (2010)
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities (2009)
Djerassi Alumni Resident Artists Program (Winter, 2008). Declined.
Daesan Foundation Translation Grant (2006)
Outstanding Faculty Award, San Francisco State University (December l997)
Award from the Fund for Poetry (October l997)
Faculty Affirmative Action Award, San Francisco State University (Spring 1997)
Faculty Affirmative Action Award, San Francisco State University (Spring 1996)
Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry, Sun & Moon (May l995)
Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry, Sun & Moon (April l994).
Award from the Fund for Poetry (January 1994).
Djerassi Resident Artists Program (1993)
Faculty Affirmative Action Award, San Francisco State University (Spring 1992)
Multicultural Publisher’s Exchange Award of Merit for Under Flag (l992)
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Teaching Writing Fellowship, University of Iowa (1984-1986)
Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University (1980-1981)
Faculty Residencies
Faculty in Residence, Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat, Fordham University, Bronx, NY (June 2020.)
Faculty in Residence, The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2018.)
Master Class, Pratt Institute, New York, NY (November, 2017.)
Master Class, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (November 2017.)
Master Class, Duqusene University, Pittsburgh, PA (October, 2017.)
Faculty in Residence, The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2017).
Master Class, The Poetry Project, New York, NY (October, 2016.)
Poet in Residence, The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2016).
Writer in Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York, NY (March 2016).
Writer in Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York, NY (April 2015).
Master Class, Fordham University, New York, NY (March 2015)
Writer in Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York, NY (March 2014).
Writer in Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York, NY (March 2013).
Writer in Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York, NY (March 2012).
Poet in Residence, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2011).
Writer in Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York, NY (March 2011).
Master Class, Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York, NY (October 2009).
Seoul National University, Seoul Korea (June 2009).
Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (July 2009).
Naropa Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO (July 2007).
Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (June 2007).
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (April, 2006).
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI (March 2002).
Tucson Poetry Festival, Tucson, AZ (April 2001).
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, San Francisco, CA (January l999).
Graduate Poetics Program, New College, San Francisco, CA (November l997).
Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence, University of Minnesota (March 1996).
POETRY READINGS (Selected)
Poetry Project, New York, NY (February 2020).
Poets House, New York, NY (November 2019).
Poets House, New York, NY (November 2018).
The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2018).
Belladonna Reading Series, New York, NY (December, 2017.)
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (November 2017.)
Poets House, New York, NY (November 2017).
Duqusene University, Pittsburgh, PA (October, 2017.)
The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2017)
Poetry Project, New York, NY (October, 2016).
Columbia University, New York, NY (October, 2016).
The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2016).
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Segue Reading Series, New York, NY (February, 2016).
Ivy Writers Reading Series, Paris, France (November, 2015).
Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University, London, England (November, 2015).
Poets House, New York, NY (October 2015).
The Ashbery Home School, Hudson, NY (August, 2015)
Poets House, New York, NY (October 2014).
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (September, 2014)
Rice University, Houston, TX (April 2014)
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (March 2014)
Poets House, New York, NY (October 2013).
Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo, NY (September 2013).
Alfred University, Alfred, NY (April 2013).
Small Press Traffic, Oakland, CA (December 2012).
University of Maine, Bangor, ME (October 2012).
Segue Reading Series, New York, NY (October 2012).
Poets House, New York, NY (October 2012).
Boise State University, Boise, ID (September, 2012).
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (March, 2012).
POG Poetry in Action Reading Series, Tucson, AZ (February 2012).
Poets House, New York, NY (October 2011).
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA (April, 2011).
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2011).
Page Turner: The Asian-American Literary Festival, Asian American Writers Workshop, New York, NY
(November 2010).
Poets House, New York, NY (October 2010).
Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (September 2010).
Mt. Holyoke College, Hadley, MA (April 2010).
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI (April 2010).
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (March 2010).
POG Poetry in Action Reading Series, Tucson, AZ (November 2009).
Triptych Reading Series, New York, NY (October 2009).
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (April 2009).
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (March 2009).
Duke University, Durham, NC (February 2009).
Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York, NY (November 2008).
Poets Out Loud at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York, NY (October 2008).
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (June 2007).
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (March 2007).
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, San Francisco, CA (March 2007).
Lunch Poems, University of California, Berkeley, CA (March 2007).
Segue Reading Series/Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY (January 2007).
St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY (December 2006).
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (October 2006).
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY (October 2006).
Amherst Books, Five Colleges Consortium, Amherst, MA (May 2006).
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (April 2006).
Belladonna Reading Series, New York, NY (February 2006).
Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY (October 2005).
Grolier's Books Poetry Reading Series, Adams House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (October 2005).
The Humanities Institute, SUNY-Buffalo (October 2005)
Wednesdays at 4 Plus Reading Series, SUNY-Buffalo (October 2004).
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Cambridge Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Trinity College, Cambridge University,
Cambridge, England (April 2003).
Drake University, Des Moines, IA (April 2003).
Folger Library, Washington, D.C., (February 2003).
The Drawing Center, New York, NY (October 2002).
City Lights Poetry Reading Series, San Francisco, CA (March 2002).
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI ((March 2002).
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (November 2001).
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (September, 2001).
St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA (March 2001).
University of California at Santa Cruz (October 2000).
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (October 2000).
Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, CA (December l999).
Poetry Flash Reading Series, Cody’s Books, Berkeley, CA (October l999).
a+ Bend Press Reading Series, San Francisco, CA (July l999).
Mills College, Oakland, CA (April l999).
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (November l999).
Salon Series, Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, CA (December l998).
St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY (March, l998).
Queens College, Flushing, NY (March, l998).
The Holloway Poetry Series, University of California at Berkeley (October l997).
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (March, l997).
Subtext Reading Series, Seattle, WA (March l997).
Eastwind Books, Berkeley, CA (March l997).
University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA (November l996).
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (September 1996).
Co-op Bookstore, Oberlin, OH (April 1996).
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN (March 1996).
University of California at Los Angeles, CA (February 1996).
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center and New College, San Francisco, CA (February 1996).
111 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA (August 1995).
The Luggage Store Gallery, Korean-American Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA (October 1994).
Poetry Flash Reading Series, Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA (April 1994).
University of Miami, Miami, FL (March 1994).
Columbia University, New York, NY (March 1994).
Brown University, Providence, RI (March 1994).
University of California, Los Angeles, CA (December 1993).
Canessa Park Reading Series, San Francisco, CA (December 1993).
Mills College, Oakland, CA (October 1993).
Academy of American Poets, New York, NY (May 1993).
State University of New York at Buffalo (April 1993).
Small Press Traffic Reading Series, San Francisco, CA (December 1992).
Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA (October 1992).
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (May 1992).
Kearney Street Workshop, Japanese Cultural & Community Center/Small Press Traffic Multicultural
Poetry Series, San Francisco, CA (March 1992).
San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, San Francisco, CA (November 1991).
LECTURES, CONFERENCES, RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Participant, “Hearing: Leslie Scalapino and Lyn Hejinian, a Collective Reading (May, 2021)
Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Poetry and Poetics, Pratt Institute, New York, NY (December, 2017)
Keynote, National Poetry Foundation Conference, University of Maine at Orono (July, 2017)
Lecture, “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant-garde of One,” New York University and The Asian
American Writers’ Workshop, New York, NY (December 2014).
Keynote, “Transaction: the 12th Annual English Graduate Student Organization Conference,” Department
of English, University at Albany, Albany, NY (March 2014).
George Oppen Memorial Lecture, The Poetry Center, San Francisco, CA (December 2012).
Keynote, “Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the World in English: Crossing Borders and Building
Bridges in Glocal and Transcultural Passages,” The English Language and Literature Association of
Korea (ELLAK) Global Conference, Daejeon, Korea (December 2010).
Keynote, “Trading Places: The Changing Climate of English Studies International Conference,”
sponsored by Ewha University, National Taiwan University, and Tsukuba University, Seoul, Korea
(November 2010).
“Multilingual and Transcultural Poetics,” Transnationalism and Cultural Translation Project
Distinguished Lecture Series, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea (November 2010).
“Languages of Poetry, Languages of Diaspora,” Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (June 2009).
“Contemporary Experimental American Poetry.” Yonsei University, Seoul Korea (June 2009).
“Translingual and Transcultural Poetics.” Korea University, Seoul, Korea (June 2009).
“A Symposium on the Tenth Anniversary of Myung Mi Kim's DURA,” University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY (November 2008).
"Poetry as Process," Greenfield College, Greenfield, MA (May 2006).
"A Manner of Listening: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Poetry Center and American Poetry
Archives," Poets House, New York, NY (October 2004).
“Poetics of Contingency," Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, British Columbia (April 2002).
"Reading History, Writing in Time," Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI (March 2002).
“Provisional Languages and Times," The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group,
University of California at Los Angeles (November 2001).
"Reading History, Writing in Time," lecture and master class, Tucson Poetry Festival, (April 2001).
“Transparency Machine Project," Kelly Writer’s House, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA (October 2000).
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“New Boundaries in Korean-American Literature," The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA (March 2002)
"Contemporary Korean-American Literature,” Asian-American Studies, University of California
at Berkeley (April l998).
"Fireside Chat," Asian-American Renaissance, Minneapolis, MN (March l996).
Panels/Conferences (invited only)
“More than a Manifesto: The Poet’s Essay.” Columbia University, New York, NY (March, 2018.)
“Dwelling In-Between: Korean-Americans in the Bay Area,” University of California Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA (October, 2017.)
“Literary Community through Pedagogical Innovation,” The Association of Writers and Writing
Programs, Boston, MA (March 2013.)
“Emergency, Ethics, Ecopoetics,” Conference on Ecopoetics, University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA (February 2013.)
“Experiments in Individual Solace and Collective Safety: Crafting Poetry at the Kundiman Writer’s
Retreat, “The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Chicago, IL (February 2012.)
“Mongrels, Monsters, and Mutants: New Identities in Contemporary Poetry,” The Association of Writers
and Writing Programs, Washington, D.C. (February 2011.)
“Strong Voices: Korean and Korean-American Women Poets,” University of California,
Berkeley, CA (April 2009.)
“Infection in the Sentence: A Festival of Poetry,” Duke University, Durham, NC (February 2009.)
Faculty Roundtable, George Oppen : A Centenary Conversation, University at Buffalo (April 2008.)
“Mother Tongue,” The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, New York, NY (January 2008.)
"New For(u)ms for American Poetry,” Poets House, New York, NY (October 2003.)
"Social Lyric: Societies of American Poetry/Dissenting Practices,” Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C. (February 2003.)
“Asian-American Writing: Social History and Performance," University of Illinois at Chicago,
Chicago, IL (February 2001.)
“Words Matter: An International Asian American Writers Symposium," UCLA (June 2000.)
“Page Mothers Conference," University of California at San Diego (March l999.)
"Small Press Publishing," Co-op Bookstore, Oberlin, OH (April l996.)
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"Articulations of Korean Women," Center for Korean Studies and the Department of Asian-American Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, CA (April l994.)
"The Repeal and Its Legacy: A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts,"
San Francisco State University (November 1993.)
"The Poet and the World of Her Influences: A Poetics Conference,” Mills College, Oakland, CA (October 1993.)
"Position and Subjectivity," Writing from the New Coast Conference, SUNY at Buffalo, (April 1993.)
"Questioning the Place of the Self in Contemporary American Poetry," Associated Writing Programs Annual
Conference (March 1993.)
"Artists and Motherhood: On Ambivalence, Inspiration and Creation," Intersection for the Arts,
San Francisco, CA (May 1992.)
Conferences co-organized
“Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years”—with Cristanne Miller and Judith Goldman, April 9-10, 2016.
Commissions
Annual Broadside, Friends of the Libraries, University at Buffalo, 2006.
Zorn, John. Bi-lingual Korean-English text for his “New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands,” 1997.
INTERVIEWS
“Jonathan Stalling Interviews Myung Mi Kim,” The Conversant, http://theconversant.org/?p=5425
(November, 2013).
Victor, Divya, “Eight Discourses with Myung Mi Kim,” https://jacket2.org/interviews/eight-discourses-between-
myung-mi-kim-and-divya-victor (March 2013).
Keller, Lynn. “An Interview with Myung Mi Kim.” Contemporary Literature, Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2008.
"linebreak.” http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Kim.html, Philadelphia, PA (March 2007)
Lee, James. "An interview with Myung Mi Kim." Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers,
University of Hawai’i Press, 2000: 92-104.
“West Coast Live." National Public Radio, broadcast from San Francisco, CA (March 2000).
Morrison, Yedda. “Generosity as Method: An Interview with Myung Mi Kim." Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics
(Spring l998): 75-85.
KFAI Radio, Minneapolis, MN (March 1996).
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Hankook Il Bo. Korea Times. Los Angeles bureau, (February 1996).
KUSF Radio, San Francisco, CA (March 1995).
KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA (June 1993).
CRITICAL RESPONSES
Chapters/Articles
Chen, Christopher. “‘Number, form, proportion, situation’: The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung
Mi Kim’s Dura.” boundary 2, vol. 46, no. 4, 2019, pp. 157-180.
Kinzer, Greg. “‘Throat in Hand’: Myung Mi Kim’s Poetics of the Physical.” Journal of Modern
Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, 2019, pp. 57-74.
Parrish, Melissa. “Myung Mi Kim’s Vegetal Imaginary and the Poetics of Dispossession.” Contemporary
Literature, vol. 59, no. 1, 2018, pp. 31-48.
Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun. “Paranoid Poetics: Targeting and Evasion in Myung Mi Kim’s Penury.” The Fate
of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, edited by Nicholas Nace and Charles Altieri, Northwestern UP,
2018, pp. 171-181.
Dowling, Sarah. “Abstract Citizenship and Alien Racialization.” Translingual Poetics: Writing
Personhood Under Settler Colonialism, U of Iowa P, 2018, pp. 91-120.
Sohn, Steven Hong. “‘Experiment Is Each Scroll of White Pages Joined Together’: Reading Punctuation,
Mathematics, and Science in Myung Mi Kim’s Dura.” College Literature, vol. 42, no. 4, 2015, pp. 648-
682.
Dowling, Sarah. “Interpolation, Coherence, History: The Works of Myung Mi Kim.” Nests and
Strangers: On Asian-American Women Poets, edited by Timothy Yu, Kelsey Street Press, 2015.
Martin, C. J., editor. “On Myung Mi Kim” [feature with essays by C. J. Martin, Jean Uhm, Divya Victor,
Jennifer Aglio, Susan Gevirtz, Julia Bloch, Francisco “Kokoy” Guevara, and Sarah Campbell.] Jacket 2,
2013, jacket2.org/feature/myung-mi-kim.
Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun. “Speaking in Tongues: Myung Mi Kim’s Poetics of the Mouth.” Racial Things,
Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-garde Asian American Poetry, U of Iowa P, 2012, pp. 39-69.
Rippeon, Andrew. “From Blank to Blank: On Myung Mi Kim.” Emily Dickinson International Society
Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 3, 2011.
Keller, Lynn. “Myung Mi Kim’s Visual Poetics of the Aggregate.” Thinking Poetry: Readings in
Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics, U of Iowa P, 2010, pp. 153-180.
Ziarek, Krzysztof. “Noting Silence.” Critical Horizons, vol. 11, no. 3, 2010, pp. 354-377.
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Kim, Eui Young. “‘Here, this speck and this speck that you missed’: A Poetics of the Archive in Myung
Mi Kim’s Commons.” Journal of English Language and Literature/Yǒngǒ Yǒngmunhak (JELL,) vol. 56,
no. 6, 2010, pp. 1119-1133.
Park, Josephine. “Modern Warfare: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim.” Apparitions of
Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics, Oxford UP, 2008.
Cross, Michael and Andrew Rippeon, editors. Building is a Process/Light is an Element: Essays and
Excursions for Myung Mi Kim, 2008, writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/kim/building.
Schultz, Kathy Lou. “Kathy Lou Schultz on Myung Mi Kim.” Women Poets on Mentorship: Effects and
Affections, edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, U of Iowa P, 2008.
Liu, Warren. “Making Common the Commons: Myung Mi Kim’s Ideal Subject.” American Poets in the
21st Century: The New Poetics, edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, Wesleyan UP, 2007.
Zhou, Xiaojing. “‘What Story What Story What Sound’: The Nomadic Poetics of Myung Mi
Kim’s Dura.” College Literature, vol. 33, no. 4, 2007, pp. 63-91.
Zhou, Xiaojing. “Myung Mi Kim: ‘Speak and It is Sound in Time.’” The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity:
Asian American Poetry. U of Iowa P, 2006.
Park, Josephine. “‘Composed of Many Lengths of Bone’: Myung Mi Kim’s Reimagination of Image and
Epic.” Transnational Asian-American Literature: Site and Transits. Ed. Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
Philadephia: Temple University Press, 2006.
Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun. “Speaking In Tongues: Myung Mi Kim’s Stylized Mouths.” Studies in the
Literary Imagination, vol. 37, no. 1, 2004.
Chiu, Jeannie. “Identities in Process: The Experimental Poetry of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Myung Mi
Kim.” Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen, edited by Eleanor Ty and Donald
Goellnicht, Indiana UP, 2004.
Discussion of individual works within an essay or chapter
Hunter, Walter. “A Global ‘We’? Poetics Exhortations in a Time of Precarious Life.” Cultural Critique,
Issue 98, 2018, pp. 72-94.
Keller, Lynn. “Environmental Justice Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene.” Recomposing
Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene, U of Virginia P, 2017.
Dick, Jennifer K. “Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim: Voicing the Integral Divide: Reshaping
American History through Multi-lingualism.” American Multiculturalism in Context: Views from at
Home and Abroad, edited by Sämi Ludwig, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 203-220.
Hunter, Walt. “The Crowd to Come: Poetics Exhortations from Brooklyn to Kashmir.” Forms of a World:
Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization, Fordham UP, 2019.
Cocola, Jim. “Remilitarized Poems: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim.” Places in the
Making: A Cultural Geography of American Poetry, U of Iowa P, 2016, pp. 155-173.
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Hume, Angela. “An Ecopoetics of the Limit: Myung Mi Kim’s ‘fell.’” OmniVerse, 25 May 2016,
omniverse.us/angela-hume-an-ecopoetics-of-the-limit.
Golston, Michael. “A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S: Peter Inman, Myung Mi Kim, Lyn
Hejinian.” Poetic Machination: Allegory, Surrealism, and Post-Modern Poetic Form, Columbia
University Press, 2015, pp. 101-144.
Hume, Angela. “Twenty-first Century Poetry and Politics: Myung Mi Kim’s Commons and Claudia
Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.” A History of American Poetry: Contexts—Developments—Readings,
edited by René Dietrich, Oliver Scheiding, and Clemens Spahr, Wissenschaftliccher Verlag Trier, 2015,
pp. 563-80.
Lee, Juliette. “‘Into Motions and relations’: Metonic Cycles with Myung Mi Kim.” Jacket2, 29 March
2014, jacket2.org/commentary/motions-and-relations-metonic-cycles-myung-mi-kim.
Ronda. Margaret. “‘Not much left’: Wageless Life in Millenial Poetry.” Post45, 9 Oct 2011,
post45.research.yale.edu/2011/10/not-much-left-wageless-life-in-millenial-poetry.
Rekdal, Paisley. “Two Takes on Poetic Meaning and the Line.” A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, edited
by Rosko, Emily, U of Iowa P, 2011, pp. 199-201.
Yu, Timothy. “Asian-American Poems in the First Decade of the 2000s.” Contemporary Literature, vol.
52, no. 4, 2011, pp. 818-851
Stefans, Brian Kim. Before Starting Over. Salt Publishing, 2006.
Kang, Laura Hyun Yi. Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian American Women. Duke UP, 2002.
Barlow, Tani. “‘What was given, given over?’” Inter Asia Cultural Studies, vol.1.2, no. 3, 2001.
Zhou, Xiaojing. “Asian American Poetry: Diaspora and National Identity.” Revista Canaria de
Estudios Ingleses, Universidad de la Laguna, 2001.
Kang, Laura Hyun Yi. “Remembering Home.” Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism,
edited by Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi, Routledge, 1998, pp. 249-290.
Kim, Elaine H. “Korean American Literature.” An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature,
edited by King-Kok Cheung, Cambridge UP, 1997, pp. 156-191.
Altieri, Charles. “What is Living and What is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the
Contemporaneity of Some American Poetry.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 22, no. 4, 1996), pp. 764-789.
Altieri, Charles. “Images of Form vs. Images of Content in Contemporary Asian-American Poetry.” Qui
Parle, vol. 9, no. 1, 1995, pp. 71-91.
Weinberger, Eliot. “On Rukeyser, Myung Mi Kim, and Cendrars.” Sulfur, vol. 32, 1993.
Dissertations (selected)
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Chambers, F. Alexander. Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge. 2019. Indiana University, PhD
dissertation.
Hume, Angela. Lyric Interiors: The Contemporary Ecological Imagination in American Women’s Poetry,
2016. University of California-Davis, PhD dissertation.
Wong, Jane. Going Toward the Ghost: The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Asian American Poetry.
2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
Choi, Hee Jion. Sound and Silence, About the Complex Monad: Study on John Cage, Myung Mi Kim, and
Leslie Scalapino. 2014. University at Buffalo, SUNY, PhD dissertation.
Alvergue, Jose. Poetics of Impermanence: Experimental Poetries and Politics. 2013. University at
Buffalo, SUNY, PhD dissertation.
Dowling, Sarah. Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry. 2012. University of
Pennsylvania, PhD dissertation.
Inoue, Mayumo. Senses of History: Colonial Memories, Works of Art, and Heterogeneous Community in
America’s Asia-Pacific. 2012. University of Southern California, PhD dissertation.
Lytton, Jackson Smith. Projective Citizenship: The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American
Poetry. 2012. Columbia University, PhD dissertation.
Harkey, John. Significant Little Wreckage: “Small Poetry” in 20th Century American Writing. 2011. City
University of New York, PhD dissertation.
Chen, Christopher. Not to Repeat History: Racialization and Combinatory Textuality in Contemporary
Asian-American and African-American Experimental Writing. 2011. University of California-Berkeley,
PhD dissertation.
Martin, Dawn Lundy. Saying “I am”: Experimentalism and Subjectivity in Contemporary Poetry by
Claudia Rankine, M. Nourbese Philip, and Myung Mi Kim. 2009. University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
PhD dissertation.
Cocola, James. Topopoesis: Contemporary American Poetries and Imaginative Making of Place. 2009.
University of Virginia, PhD dissertation.
Park, Mijeong. From Emigration to Immigration: A Transpacific Reading of Korean and Korean-
American Literature and Film. 2007. University at Buffalo, SUNY, PhD dissertation.
Liu, Warren. The Object of Experiment: Figurations of Subjectivity in Asian-American Experimental
Literature. 2004. University of California-Berkeley, PhD dissertation.
Park, Josephine. The Forms of Cathay: Modernism, the Orient, and Asian-American Poetry. 2003.
University of California-Berkeley, PhD dissertation.
REVIEWS (selected)
Engel, Laura Eve. Review of Civil Bound. Poets.org, 2019, poets.org/books-noted-2019.
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mclennan, rob. “Myung Mi Kim, Civil Bound.” rob mclennan’s blog, 25 Oct 2019,
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2019/10/myung-mi-kim-civil-bound.html.
Campion, Peter. “Resistance Without Rhetoric.” Public Books, 6 Nov 2019,
www.publicbooks.org/resistance-without-rhetoric.
Jacobs-Beck, Kim. Review of Civil Bound. The Cortland Review, issue 83, 28 Oct 2019,
www.cortlandreview.com/issue/83/jacobs-beck_r.php.
White, Simone. “The Best Poetry Books of 2019.” Five Books, 31 Dec 2019.
www.google.com/search?q=%22myung+mi+kim%22&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:8/1/2016,cd_max:3/1/2020&ei
=fLJrXpbkFYi-
tAbF3Z3ADw&start=20&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwiWkuih7ZfoAhUIH80KHcVuB_g4ChDw0wN6BAgLE
EA.
Turner, Lindsay. Review of Poetics and Precarity. ASAP/Journal, 14 Feb 2019, asapjournal.com/poetics-
and-precarity-lindsay-turner.
mclennan, rob. “Best American Experimental Writing 2018, ed. Myung Mi Kim.” rob mclennan’s blog,
17 Sept 2018, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2018/09/best-american-experimental-writing-2018.html.
Martin, C.J. “On ‘Penury.’” Jacket2, 2013, jacket2.org/article/penury.
De Nonno, April. “A Grotesque Beauty in Penury.” International Examiner, 2011, iexaminer.org/a-
grotesque-beauty-in-penury.
Martin, Dawn Lundy. “Penury by Myung Mi Kim.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 53, no. 1, 2011, pp. 93-99.
Patel, Soham. “On Penury by Myung Mi Kim.” Arch, vol. 3, 2010, archjournal.wustl.edu.
Review of Penury. Publisher’s Weekly, June 2009, www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-890650-37-7.
Hall, Joseph. “Notes on Myung Mi Kim’s Commons.” Celadon Review, 11 Feb 2009,
celadonreview.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/notes-on-myung-mi-kims-commons.
Review of Commons. Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 2002, www.publishersweekly.com/0-520-23144-9.
Zhou, Xiaojing. “Possibilities Out of an Impossible Position: Myung Mi Kim’s Under Flag.” Electronic
Poetry Center, June 2002, epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/xiaojing.html.
Park, Ed. “Sound Bitten: Commons by Myung Mi Kim." Village Voice, vol. 47, no. 18, 7 May 2002, p.
121.
Anonymous comment recommending DURA. Art and Culture, www.artandculture.com/cgi-
bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1067
Moure, Erin. “Under Flag.” Globe and Mail, Oct 2000.
Harvey, Mathea. “DURA: Myung Mi Kim.” The Boston Review, Feb/Mar 1999.
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Knowlton, Edgar C. “Review of DURA.” World Literature Today, vol. 73, no 2, Spring 1999.
Hofer, Jen. “Myung Mi Kim: DURA.” Poetry Project Newsletter, vol. 175, June 1999.
Brink, Dean. “Myung Mi Kim’s The Bounty.” Interpoetics, vol. 1, no. 1, Summer 1997.
Saidenberg, Jocelyn. “The Bounty.” Zero: A Journal of Writing Arts,
www.members.tripod.com/`verdicchio/zero.html.
Weinberger, Eliot. “Under Flag.” Sulfur, Spring 1993.
Young, Karl. “Myung Mi Kim & Maureen Owen as of 1993.” American Book Review, June-July 1993.
Donahue, Joseph. “Under Flag.” Multicultural Review, Fall 1992.
Cariaga, Catalina. “Desire and Predicament.” Poetry Flash, Aug 1992.
Sakurai, Patricia. “Under Flag.” The Minnesota Review, Spring-Summer 1992.
Chung, Craig. “Under Flag.” International Examiner, March 1992.
EDITING, EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS
Guest Editor, Futurepoem Books, New York, NY (2013-14.)
Advisory Board, Kundiman, New York, NY (2008- )
Editorial Board, Asian Women, Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University,
Seoul, Korea (2006- )
Editorial Board, Chax Press, Tucson, AZ (2006- )
Selection Advisory Board, The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, CA (2005- )
Advisory Board, Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, San Francisco, CA (2001- )
Contributing Editor, Chain 5: different languages (April 1998.)
Editor, how(ever): a Journal for Women Poets and Scholars Working in the Innovative Tradition (1990-1992.)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Judge, Axelrod Prize in Poetry, English Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY, (2020.)
Co-organizer, Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry, University at Buffalo, (2019.)
Co-organizer, Third Annual Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry (2018.)
Judge, Omnidawn Publishing First/Second Book Poetry Contest, (2017.)
English Department Graduate Admissions Committee, SUNY Buffalo, ( 2017.)
English Department Graduate Admissions Committee, SUNY Buffalo, ( 2016.)
Featured Reader, benefit for Council on Islamic American Relations, New York, NY (March 2017.)
Judge, Hammond Logan Cook Prize, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (April 2017).
Co-organizer, Second Annual Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry (April 2017.)
Judge, Kay Murphy Prize in Poetry, Annual National Poetry Contest, University of New Orleans,
(December 2016.)
Co-organizer, Inaugural Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry (April 2016.)
Judge, First Book Contest, Kelsey St. Press, Berkeley, CA (December 2014.)
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Participant, “Celebrating Theresa Hak Kyung Cha,” sponsored by Kundiman and Belladonna, Bowery
Poetry Club, New York, NY (March, 2011.)
Judge, The Scribbler’s Prize, State University of New York at Buffalo, (April 2011.)
Judge, The Glascock Poetry Contest, Mt. Holyoke College (April 2010.)
Judge, The Axelrod Poetry Prize, State University of New York at Buffalo, (2009, 2010.)
Judge, The Academy of American Poets Prize, State University of New York at Buffalo (2002-2008.)
Juror, Poetry Panel, Marin Arts Council (2001.)
Speaker, “Remembering the Forgotten War: Teach-In on the 50th Anniversary of War in Korea,"
Berkeley, CA (June 2000.)
Participant, “Books by the Bay," benefit and celebration of independent booksellers,
San Francisco, CA (June 1998.)
Speaker, "Min-Sok Forum: A Tribute to Korean Women," Korean Center, San Francisco, CA (May l998.)
Judge, “Growing Up Asian in America," sponsored by Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,
San Francisco, CA (February l998.)
Juror, "Mentor Series", The Loft, Minneapolis, MN (April 1997.)
Judge, Prison Arts Literary Competition, William James Association, Santa Cruz, CA (October 1996.)
Advisory Panel, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (1995-96.)
Literature Selection Panel, Djerassi Resident Artists Program (1995.)
Staff Development Workshop, Peralta Community College District's Professional Days, Vista
Community College, Berkeley, CA (January 1995.)
Panel, "Imagination and Cultural Identities: What does it mean to be an American in the 1990's?"
California College of Arts and Crafts (November 1994.)
Judge, Ninth Annual Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, San Francisco, CA (March 1994.)
Panel, "Sa-I-Gu: Reflections on the L.A. Crisis," Korean Community Center of the East Bay,
Laney College, Oakland, CA (April 1993.)