Franny Choi

Scholarship/Creative Work

Poetry Collections:

• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Mariner Books, 2022)
• Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019)
• Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2019)

 

Chapbooks:

• Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)

 

Selected Journal Publications:

• “Celebrate Good Times,” The Nation, 2021
• “Good Morning America,” The New Republic, 2021
• “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness,” The Atlantic, 2020
• “Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon,” the New York Times, 2020
• “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On,” “Hangul Abecederian,” and others, Poetry, 2019
• “How to Let Go of the World,” PEN Poetry Series, 2019
• “Amid Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula,” Paris Review, 2019
• “The Cyborg Watches a Video of a Neo-Nazi Saying Her Name,” The Rumpus, 2018.
• “Quarantine,” Poem-a-Day, 2018.
• Five poems, American Poetry Review, 2018.
• “They’re Cutting the Ovaries Out of Deer and Laying Them Out on Yoga Mats When They’re Done,” Waxwing, 2018.
• “Perihelion: A History of Touch,” Poetry, 2017.
• “Introduction to Quantum Theory,” The Adroit Journal, 2017.
• “& O, bright star of disaster, I have been lit,” The Paris-American, 2016
• “Turing Test,” The Poetry Review, 2016
• “Weight,” Indiana Review, 2016
• Two poems, The Margins, 2015
• “Field Trip to the Museum of Human History,” PBS NewsHour, 2015

Essays

• “On How to Wash a Heart, by Bhanu Kapil,” The Georgia Review, 2020
• “Racism is a Reboot: Binging Battlestar Galactica at the End of a World,” The Rumpus, 2020
• “Periodic (#6),” Palette Poetry, 2019
• “Hari Kondabolu is Not For Everyone,” Hyphen Magazine, 2019

Interviews

• NPR Life Kit, 2020
• Paris Review Blog, 2019
• Iowa Review, 2019
• NPR All Things Considered, 2019