Franny Choi
Franny Choi | |
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 Franny Choi performing at a poetry slam | |
| Born | February 11, 1989 |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Genre | Slam poetry |
Franny Choi (born February 11, 1989)[citation needed] is an American writer, poet and playwright.[1]
Life
[edit]Choi uses she and they pronouns.[1] She lived in Northampton, Massachusetts and now resides in Greenfield, Massachusetts.[2][3] Choi's parents are Choi Inyeong and Nam Songeun.[4] She is Korean-American. In high school, Choi was introduced to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and became interested in poetry's spoken form. In college, she joined a group for marginalized spoken poets, called WORD!, which was her introduction to slam poetry.[5]
Education and career
[edit]Choi graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Arts and Ethnic Studies in 2011 and received an Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.[6] After graduating, she became a co-director of the Providence Poetry Slam. She founded the Dark Noise Collective with Fatimah Asghar, Danez Smith, Jamila Woods, Nate Marshall, and Aaron Samuels in 2012.[2]
Choi worked for Hyphen, a non-profit Asian-American culture magazine, as a senior editor. She was co-host, with Danez Smith, of the podcast VS.[2] She was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in English at Williams College; in 2022 she joined the undergraduate Literature Faculty at Bennington College.[7][8]
Awards
[edit]Choi is a two-time winner of the Rustbelt Poetry Slam.[9]
Activism
[edit]Choi promotes social activism through her poetry and writing.[10] In her poem "Whiteness Walks Into A Bar", she highlights institutionalized racism in the United States.[11] Other poems, like "furiosa", focus on feminism.[12] Choi curated a series of video poems by 12 queer Asian American and Pacific Islander poets for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.[13]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]- Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Button Poetry, 2014)
- Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019)
- The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco Press, 2022)
Chapbooks
[edit]- Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Franny Choi". Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ a b c "About". FRANNY CHOI. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ "Northampton's new poet laureate lives in Greenfield: Franny Choi is 10th person to hold title". Greenfield Recorder. 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ Choi, Franny (2022-08-21). "Choi Jeong Min". The Poetry Foundation.
- ^ Cordero, Karla (2014-11-03). "Interview with Franny Choi". Spit Journal. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ^ "Franny Choi". english.williams.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ "Franny Choi". Bennington College. 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Franny Choi". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ Hale, Whitney (2019-09-19). "Franny Choi to Headline Wild Women of Poetry Slam". UKNow. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ Segal, Corinne (30 November 2015). "Poet Franny Choi pictures a world without police". PBS News. NewsHour Productions. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ "Franny Choi - "Whiteness Walks into a Bar"". Button Poetry. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ^ Choi, Franny (2016). "ISSUE 12 FEATURE: FRANNY CHOI". Bat City Review. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ^ "Queer Check-Ins". Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
External links
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- 1989 births
- American writers of Korean descent
- Brown University alumni
- Living people
- American LGBTQ people of Asian descent
- Writers from Providence, Rhode Island
- Poets from Rhode Island
- American poets of Asian descent
- American LGBTQ poets
- LGBTQ people from Rhode Island
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American poets
- American women poets
- University of Michigan alumni