Four million people (mostly civilian) were killed in the three years of the Korean War, and it is estimated that a million more Koreans were displaced in its aftermath, but here in the United States, the war is frequently referred to as “forgotten.”
Mary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. Born in Seoul and raised in New York, her work is concerned with hybridity and cross-cultural identity. She is currently a Public Humanities Fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center holds graduate degrees from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Mary-Kim lives in Rhode Island. Online, you can find her here and here.
Knowing Better: Brian Blanchfield’s Essay Collection ‘Proxies’
The 25 essays in Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies are erudite and intensely personal, deftly traversing the distance between the intellectual and the corporeal, between the meditative and the resolute.