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Myung Mi Kim is Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag. Kim was awarded The Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award of Merit for Under Flag. She also received a fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, awards from the Fund for Poetry, a Daesan Foundation Translation Grant, and the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. The anthologies in which her work has appeared include American Poets in the 21st century: The New American Poetics, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women. Purchase Penury
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from Penury
Touching Reception and
Precedence, the Treatment of Audience
Contents of Visiting
The bird for prosperity we provided you
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[conjugate]
she, the weeping work
parade of earnings
|| weight of forelegs and hooves under water
a ripple | birched
alyssum
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within a few years it learns to read——if it is a boy——and in this place
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Half a lobe and barricade | as befits a stateroom
Clock-tower and bulwark
: Why don't you take mommy swimming? It'll be fun——
He is not making rent. She is tired of being alone with the child.
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plethora of roots || mowed lawns
tendon and refuse, who
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