Links for Korean Poetry

Selected Anthologies

Sijo Poetry

Women Poets

Audio and Video Recordings

Selected References

News Links

Boston Globe On Korean Sijo
Read a Boston Globe article about the sijo (June 30, 2009)
“The new haiku? Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo”

The Chosun Ilbo (Chosun.com) on Korean Sijo
Read a Chosun Ilbo article about the sijo (October 6, 2009)
“청산~리…” 미(美)에 시조 전도하는 하버드대 교수

KBS 2TV Broadcast in Korea on Sijo
Watch a video clip from “World Today” about sijo events in Chicago (April 9–10, 2010) 
“A Sijo Workshop for English Teachers with Professor David McCann, Harvard University”

Harvard Courses: Korean Poetry

Korean Literature 132. Korean Literature in Translation

Korean Literature 212. Modern Korean Poetry
Major and minor voices in 20th and 21st-century Korean poetry. Attention to the practices of reading and translation, and to the political contexts of modern Korean poetry.

East Asian Studies 160. Writing Asian Poetry
Readings in selected Chinese, Japanese, and Korean verse forms, and composition or imitation in English. Study of Li Po and Tu Fu (Chinese couplet), Basho (haiku and haibun mixed prose and poetry), Yun Son-do and other Korean poets (shijo), and composition/imitation. Final project, an extended suite of poems or mixed prose and poetry.