Jason Koo
@jasonykoo
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Korean American poet, educator, editor. Founder of @BrooklynPoets. Professor at @QuinnipiacU. Creator of @PoetsBridge.
Beacon, NY
Joined March 2009
Thrilled to reveal the cover of my new book, No Rest, which drops on May 15 from @DiodeEditions! Canβt say thank you enough to Matthew Zapruder, @EugeniaLeigh and @GabrielleBates for your amazing words about the book. Preorder here! https://t.co/U4b55AXVBE
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Delighted to be named the winner of the 2025 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize for NO REST!
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Join us tonight at @booksaremagicbk!
So excited for these readings and conversations this weekend! I hope to see many of you at either of these readings! Friday, November 8, 7PM: Conversation w/@jasonykoo at @booksaremagicbk Saturday, November 9, 7PM: Reading and more! With @themwhittaker and @AlanSemerdjian
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Come through, Brooklyn! @AlbertAbonado will be at @booksaremagicbk to talk about his National Poetry Series-winning collection, FIELD GUIDE FOR ACCIDENTS, with @jasonykoo this Friday, 11/8. Get your ποΈ now! β‘οΈ https://t.co/BVc1Axhfix
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Join us this Friday 10/18 at 7pm for a book launch reading in celebration of @BarotRickβs beautiful new collection, Moving the Bones! Featured readers will be @jasonykoo, @lutherxhughes, and @poetjanewong πππ
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The No Rest book tour continues this fall through WA, CT and OH! Iβm proud to announce that Iβve been named the 2024β25 Connecticut Poetry Circuit poet and as part of my tour will visit four CT schools for readings, class visits and dialogues with students and faculty.
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Tonight at @poetshouse! See you there.
The fall (or technically pre-fall) leg of my No Rest book tour kicks off with a reading at @poetshouse with the brilliant Catherine Barnett on Wednesday, Sept 4, at 7 PM! Free with RSVP through the link below and open to the public. https://t.co/JwJ7YNF4KG
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The fall (or technically pre-fall) leg of my No Rest book tour kicks off with a reading at @poetshouse with the brilliant Catherine Barnett on Wednesday, Sept 4, at 7 PM! Free with RSVP through the link below and open to the public. https://t.co/JwJ7YNF4KG
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Huge thank you to @DavidWooPoet for this brilliantly insightful review of No Rest in @lithub! Honored to be in such good company.
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Written in the fourth year of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, the Polish poet CzesΕaw MiΕoszβs βThe World,β subtitled βA NaΓ―ve Poem,β was an idyllic vision of a prelapsarian world,β¦
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this @booksaremagicbk event, @jasonykoo reads from his latest poetry collection, No Rest, and discusses the narrative opportunities of long poems in a conversation with Bessie Flores ZaldΓvar. https://t.co/9qV5PC9upm
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You have to come to the @litcleveland Plum City reading on Monday since the @CleGuardians are nowβ*checks notes*βthe best team in all of baseball. https://t.co/sTkn6QKha5
@ZackMeisel @Jasonykoo
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MONDAY! π@LoganberryBooks π£πβ½π Register NOW β€ Link in bio.Β DO NOT MISS this Sports-ThemedΒ Plum City Reading with @JasonyKoo and @ZackMeisel
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No rest--by @jasonykoo! From Diode! Check it out!
βNo Rest is utterly compelling, heartbreaking, funny, tragic and brilliant. From beginning to end I was immersed. It's a book we are fortunate to have, and to which I will return again and again.β β Matthew Zapruder https://t.co/2EGNTLbp7B
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Join me and @BessieFlores at @booksaremagicbk tonight at 7!
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βNo Rest is utterly compelling, heartbreaking, funny, tragic and brilliant.β βMatthew Zapruder
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Chicago, Iβm in your city for a whole week, starting with this reading on Sunday! Iβm so excited to be reading with Desiree McCray and @jasonykoo at the Sunday Reading Series. Would love to see yβall faces there, and if you the homie text/dm me so we can make plans π«ΆπΏβ€οΈ
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π£ NEW! Plum City reading [Sports-Themed πβ½π] RSVP TODAY! π Featuring sports writer for @TheAtlantic + @CleGuardians ππππ ππππππ @ZackMeisel π· and the 2021 Ohio Sportswriter of the Year πππππ πππ @Jasonykoo π
Sat Aug 5 | at @loganberrybooks π 7pm
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Join Kenyatta Rogers and me in July for the Sunday Reading Series at @HungryBrainChi! Our guest readers include @jasonykoo, @brittanyroger_, and Desiree McCray!
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This was rescheduled for July 22, fam βΊοΈ
NYC friends, if you missed my book launch at @BrooklynPoets, join me at @booksaremagicbk on June 21 for a reading & conversation with the brilliant @BessieFlores, my new colleague in creative writing whose debut novel Libertad is coming out this August! https://t.co/g3lrTkoD0i
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Spots are filling, still a little time left to reserve yours to write with me at @BrooklynPoets 6/20 and 6/27! Registration link below.
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