Monica Kim reads “praise & sorrow ekphrastic” from Shō No. 5 (Summer 2024). We nominated this poem for Best Spiritual Literature.
“This poem is part of a larger poetry project about haenyeo – the Korean women from Jeju Island who deep dive for seafood for a living. It is an ekphrastic of the documentary Three Moons of Biyangdo which follows three haenyeo sisters who live on Biyangdo (a smaller island off of Jeju Island).”
– Monica Kim
Monica Kim (she/her) is a queer Korean diasporic writer living on Canarsie & Munsee Lenape land (Brooklyn, New York). She is a first reader at Augur Magazine and has been a part of Tin House Summer Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Periplus Collective, and The Watering Hole. Her writing has appeared in Shō, Gulf Coast Journal, SUSPECT, and other publications.
This poem is featured in Shō No. 5 (Summer 2024).
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