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 Book Café
with
Lee Herrick, poet
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, poet
Kim Sunée, author
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
6:00 PM-6:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea
Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth
Floor, New York
City
(Building entrance on SW corner of
Third
Avenue and 57th Street)
Please
join poets Lee Herrick, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, and author
Kim Sunée for a fascinating conversation about
Korean adoptee literature and the
link between writing and the quest for identity/origin.
Herrick and Sunée recently returned from
South
Korea, where they were conducting a
birth-family search. They will share stories from their journey and read from
their works with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs.
Supporting Organization 
About the Presenters
Lee
Herrick is the author of the poetry collection This Many Miles
from Desire (WordTech Editions, 2007). He was born south of Seoul, Korea and adopted at ten months. His poems have been published in the Haight
Ashbury Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hawaii
Pacific Review, The Bloomsbury Review, Many Mountains
Moving and MiPOesias as well as anthologized in Seeds
from a Silent Tree: An Anthology of Korean Adoptees, Hurricane
Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita and Highway 99: A Literary
Journey through California’s Great Central Valley.
He is the founding
editor of In the Grove literary journal and teaches at Fresno
City College in Fresno, California.
Jennifer
Kwon Dobbs is a poet, librettist,
teacher, and critic. She was born in Won Su Ji, South Korea. Her debut poetry collection, Paper Pavilion
was published in 2007. Her poems have been published in 5 AM,
Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, Cream City Review,
MiPOesias, Poetry NZ and the Tulane Review as
well as anthologized in Echoes Upon Echoes and Language for
a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and
Beyond. Dobbs holds a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing
from the University of Southern California and teaches English at St.
Olaf College.
Kim Sunée was born in South
Korea, adopted, and raised in New Orleans. She lived in
Europe for more than ten years where she owned an all-poetry bookshop in
Paris. She is
the author of Trail
of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (January 2008,
Grand Central). Her book, a memoir with recipes, was selected for the Spring
2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and is a January 2008
Booksense Pick. She is the founding food editor of Cottage Living and worked previously as a
food editor for Southern Living.
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