Jim welcomes back Elizabeth Jorgensen with Dr. Lucy Park for a conversation about teaching Sijo–a traditional Korean poetry form. Similar to Haiku, Sijo offers students an accessible poetry structure to learn, play with, and develop their own creative voices and identities as writers. Liz and Lucy have recently published an award-winning book, Sijo: Kore’s Poetry Form, that offers teachers background of the form, beautiful collections of famous Sijo, award-winning student samples, and lesson plans.

"SIJO: Korean Poetry” (Edited by Lucy Park and Elizabeth Jorgensen) is sold on Amazon. 

Also, complimentary copies of this book are available for educators who teach SIJO in classes in the USA. Send an email to [email protected].

Online Sijo course for teachers: https://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/events/sijo/online.php 

Sijo poems are going to the moon in The Polaris Trilogy. Learn more in this YouTube interview.

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Thanks to: 

Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design.

Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro. 

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