#jake levine

[soovermyself]

she was at a political event in the city today https://www.instagram.com/stories/adrienneadar/3851412305065634494?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MTBoYW53ZmlnZndlaw==

I’m not sure I say it nearly enough but I’m truly grateful for the kind anons 🫶🏻

[agirlnamedbone]

—Kim Kyung Ju, tr. Jake Levine (I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World, 2015)

[zarfpoetry]

7.30pm on Thursday 17th August

at Wharf Chambers, Wharf Street, Leeds

Reminder about our event next week! Sarah Crewe and Kim Kyung Ju coming at YOU, Leeds!!

Please note we are downstairs again – level access at the rear of the building, and accessible loos through the bar.

We will also have a book table, so come and visit, circulate and peruse…

See you soon!

ABOUT THE POETS

SARAH CREWE'S work is concerned with working-class feminist psychogeography. Her poems have appeared in Zarf, Poetry Wales, Junction Box, para.text, Litmus, The Wolf, Molly Bloom and Datableed. She has had several poetry chapbooks published, including flick invicta (Oystercatcher Press) sea witch (Leafe Press) and urchin (Dancing Girl Press.) Her latest, echolalia, is available from Litmus Publishing. She collaborates frequently with Sophie Mayer and her work can be heard at the Archive of the Now website. She is studying for a MRes in Poetry at the University of Kent. She is also one third of Stinky Bear Press. KIM KYUNG JU is a Seoul-based poet, dramatist and performance artist. His plays have been produced abroad in several countries and his poetry and essays are widely anthologized in South Korea. He has written and translated over a dozen books of poetry, essays, and plays, and has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the Korean government’s Today’s Young Artist Prize and the Kim Su-yong Contemporary Poetry Award. His first book of poetry, I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In This World, sold over ten thousand copies and is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed books of poetry to come out in South Korea in the new millennium.

[lifeinpoetry]

I’m single layered. / There is no me inside me.

Kim Yideum, from “Dress Rehearsal,” tr. Jake Levine, Soeun Seo & Hedgie Choi, published in The Margins

[jmarksthespots]

[#CONCERT] ROCK. featuring @BornRelic, Charles Ellsworth, Jake Levine and Wonder Muff Thursday, February 16 | 8pm Fat Baby | 112 Rivington Street New York, NY Admission: $8 in advance | $10 at the door  

...you asked and we're delivering! Born Relic is back at it this Thursday at Fat Baby for a rockin' ass show and we would love to see your beautiful faces! we hit the stage at 9pm and advanced tix are $8 ($10/dr). Born Relic players: vox: isis guitar: Diamond Dave keys: Isaac Childs bass: Billy Smolen drums: Nick Potters

[bibliomancyoracle]

You can’t see the poet’s star from earth. However, you can watch the earth from the poet’s star.

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from “A CITY OF SADNESS” by Kim Kyung Ju (translated by Jake Levine)

[bibliomancyoracle]

Memory is the second life of humans. Because all memory is handicapped, we must wait. Memory is a thing we cannot possess.

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from “A CITY OF SADNESS” by Kim Kyung Ju (translated by Jake Levine)

[bibliomancyoracle]

No matter how good you whistle, a human is a type of sheep that won’t come.

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from “A CITY OF SADNESS” by Kim Kyung Ju (translated by Jake Levine)