The New York Times / December 20, 2018

 Much of Yoon’s arresting debut memorializes the Korean “comfort women” who were forced into prostitution during World War II; it draws considerable power from the testimonies of actual survivors.“The book fixes attention on the conditions these women faced — injected with the arsenic compound salvarsan, offered anti-hemorrhagic agents made from corpses, left to die of infection,” our reviewer, BK Fischer, writes.

hyphenmagazine / December 30, 2018

It has been a great year for Asian American poetry. Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost of (Omnidawn) and Jenny Xie’s Eye Level (Graywolf), both gorgeous debuts I’ve been recommending to everyone, were finalists for the National Book Award for Poetry. Many more have been included on the year’s “Best Of” lists. There are so many books I loved that were released this year, but I’ve compiled a handful of my favorites. Happy Reading! Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon (trans. By Don Mee Choi) (New Directions). Kim Hyesoon is a critically acclaimed Korean poet whose work has influenced younger generations of feminist writers in South Korea.The brilliant Don Mee Choi has been translating her work into English for years. In her translator’s note, Choi writes: “Each of the forty-nine poems in Autobiography of Death represents one of the forty-nine days during which the spirit roams about after death, before it enters the cycle of reincarnation.”She also writes that Kim wrote these poems because of the 250 high school students who died unjustly in the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster. These poems are utterly haunting and worth every moment you spend with them.

The Chicago Maroon / February 22, 2019

Today / March 20, 2019

The pair, who were featured on the 3rd hour of TODAY, shared their list of stories for March. Read on below for this month's picks

Hello Giggles / September 18, 2018

An introduction of Emily Jungmin Yoon's New Book

Pacific Standard / September 27, 2018

An introduction of Emily Jungmin Yoon's New Book

NPR / March 31, 2021

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm here with MORNING EDITION poet in residence Kwame Alexander. Hi, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hey. Good morning, Rachel. MARTIN: Good morning. So we do this a lot, right? You and I turn to poetry and the written word in difficult times, and we have done that now for years. And here we are again in this place after the two mass shootings - one in Boulder, one in Atlanta - and what has been a steady rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.