"Romance #1" by Eunsong Kim

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 28, 2019   Romance #1   Eunsong Kim

like some 14 year old girl waiting for her crush to glance back i   keep waiting for capitalism to end but it won't end   my adult life lover states   on what will end:   Libraries Birds Retirement Recess Sprinting during recess Hispid Hares Starfish shaped like stars Inconvenience Wrinkles Sunken cheeks Living corals Protests Anti-Nuclear Proliferation Non-Aggression Pacts Dragonflies Mangosteen DMZs Trade Embargos Leopards, all kinds Sawfins Rewilding Infiltration Plot/Dreams Oak, Trees. Partulina Variabilis Partulina Splendida (-------) Violence Prevention Programs News. News:   Might a few jellyfish survive—   counting till revelations becomes part of—            Copyright © 2019 Eunsong Kim. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 28, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About This Poem   "I've been writing and adding to this poem for several years now. The poem is part challenge and provocation, part tribute and elegy to how life and extinction continue to be fantasized. It is titled 'Romance #1' because romance is an all-encompassing venture: all the emotions, all the body. '#1' because this is only the first part, yes? This cannot be the ending. Yes?" —Eunsong Kim   Eunsong Kim is the author of gospel of regicide (Noemi Press, 2017) and the co-translator, with Sung Gi Kim, of Kim Eon Hee's Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? (Noemi Press, 2019). She is an assistant professor in the English department at Northeastern University. Poetry by Kim   gospel of regicide (Noemi Press, 2017) "All Money Is A Matter of Belief" by Carmen Giménez Smith "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government" by Marcus Jackson "Quarantine" by Franny Choi June Guest Editor: Samiya Bashir   Thanks to Samiya Bashir, author of Field Theories (Nightboat Books, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Bashir about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038