Hyejung Kook
Hyejung Kook’s poetry appears in Poem-a-Day, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Verse Daily, the Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Other works include essays in the Critical Flame and Poetry as Spellcasting (North Atlantic Books, 2023) and a chamber opera libretto. Born in Seoul, Hyejung now lives in Prairie Village, Kansas. She is a Fulbright grantee, a Kundiman fellow, and coeditor of Barahm Press.
Reading List
Orange You Glad
in the middle of a metaphorical dark /
wood, but actually, it’s literal woodsmoke /
that I smell, here at Second Best Coffee