by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s annual Miami Book Fair preview. Please subscribe to SWWIM Every Day to watch a daily video by a woman-identifying writer appearing at Miami Book Fair 2024. Enjoy this taste of poetry, sponsored by Miami Book Fair and SWWIM. We look forward to seeing you at the Fair!

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Appearance at Miami Book Fair 2024: Emily Jungmin Yoon, Saturday, 11/23/2024, 3:30 pm, Room 8303

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Editor's note: A transcript was not provided for this poem. For a written version of this poem, please see chicagoreader.com/reader-partners/poetry-foundation/the-greenland-shark/.

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Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes and A Cruelty Special to Our Species, a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Yoon is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Ploughshares, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and The Sewanee Review. Yoon is the poetry editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and she is an assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She splits her time between Honolulu and South Korea.

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"The Greenland Shark" first appeared in the Chicago Reader and is collected in Find Me the Creature I Am (Knopf, October 2024). Permission granted by the poet.