Join us for Poets in the Conversation Room!

Cosponsored with Grace Cavalieri, Maryland’s lOth Poet Laureate, Kymberly Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of Annapolis Home Magazine, and St. John’s College. Funding is provided by the Anne Arundel Council for the Arts.

Three distinguished Korean poets read from their work. 

Han Hwangbo earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1970. He served as an Executive Vice President of Korea Telecom for the Korea Satellite Program from 1990 to 2002 and was honored with the “2001 von Braun Space Program Management Award of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).” His publications include a novel, The Meeting of the Stars (in Korean, 2000) and short stories, “A Fortune in 50 Years,” featured in The Spring of Literature, and “The Nakdong River” and “Going Home,” published in the Korean Literature of Washington, the annual anthology of the KLSW.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud is a Professor Emeritus of the George Washington University. A linguist and a scholar of the humanities, she has published 14 books, including Creative Women of Korea (2004) and And So Flows History (2005), English translation of Hahn Moo-Sook’s novel in Korean, Yŏksanŭn hŭrŭnda (1948). Since she joined the KLSW upon winning its New Writer Award in 2012, she has served as editor-in-chief of the 19th volume of the Korean Literature of Washington (2016), as chair of its new English Writing Subgroup (2016- 2021), and as its President (2021-2023).

Kwang-Mi Lee, born in Dragon Clouds, Un-Am, Jeonbuk Province, South Korea, received a Ph.D. in English & American Literature from The University of Tennessee in 1991 and an M.S. in Oriental Medicine from the VA University of Integrative Medicine in 2020. Currently, as a licensed acupuncturist, she practices Oriental Medicine in Bethesda, MD. Her poem “The Clock” is featured in The National Library of Poetry. She joined the KLSW as a recipient of the KLSW’s New Writers of the Year Award for her English essay in 2022, and at present serves as chair of its English Writing Subgroup.