[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: Open Reading Closes in Six Days!

Allison Hedge Coke allisonh at ucr.edu
Thu Sep 24 15:55:59 PDT 2026 

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From: Black Ocean <janaka at blackocean.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Subject: Open Reading Closes in Six Days!
To: <allison.hedgecoke at ucr.edu>


+ join us in NYC & Boston for Korean poetry in translation ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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Dear Black Oceanographers,

First, a quick reminder that our annual open reading period
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ends in 6 days! If you’ve read a Black Ocean book, loved it, and thought
that we might love your work too, then please send us your poems. On a
personal note, I’d love to see some manuscripts informed by the French
surrealists, or the German romantics, or the Russian modernists. *I’m
hungry for a visionary, metaphysical aesthetic—poetry drawn to dream,
revelation, and the unseen,* but also to the pressure those experiences put
on language and form.

Also PSA: *if you’ve already submitted but haven’t used your 40% discount
code yet, that code also expires in a week.*

And now for more events! September saw us celebrating our 20th anniversary
in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston. In October that continues
as we bring together poets and translators from our Moon Country Korean
poetry series
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for two fantastic events in Boston
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and New York
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More details on those are below.

I’ll be moderating these in-person, so if you do attend please come say
hello.

Love,
Janaka

MOON COUNTRY: Contemporary Korean Poetry
in Translation

Join Black Ocean for two evenings of readings and conversation celebrating
the Moon Country Korean poetry
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series, which brings contemporary Korean poetry into English translation.
The program will explore the poems themselves as well as the intimate,
collaborative work of carrying voice, image, rhythm, and cultural context
across languages. Through readings and discussion, the participants will
offer a glimpse into the choices, discoveries, and productive tensions that
shape poetry in translation. Both evenings will be moderated by Black Ocean
founder and publisher Janaka Stucky.

*Cambridge, MA* @ Woodberry Poetry Room (Lamont Library, Room 330)
October 19th • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
featuring: Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Mattho Mandersloot, and Shin Hae-uk
More Info
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*New York, NY* @ Poets House
October 21st • 6:30pm - 8:30pm
featuring: Hedgie Choi, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Mattho Mandersloot,
and Shin Hae-uk
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by Choi Jeongrye, translated by Sue Hyon Bae and Mattho Mandersloot
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By Moon Bo Young
translated by Hedgie Choi
Paperback / 152p. / Poetry
ISBN 978-1-939568-39-7

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