Eunsong Kim is an arts writer, poet and translator. She teaches critical race & ethnic studies at Northeastern University. Her writings have appeared in: Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and in the book anthologies, Poetics of Social Engagement and Reading Modernism with Machines. Her poetry has appeared in the Brooklyn Magazine, The Iowa Review, Minnesota Review amongst others. She is the author of gospel of regicide, a book of poems published by Noemi Press in 2017, and with Sung Gi Kim she translated Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? published in 2019. Her academic book project in progress, The Politics of Collecting: Property & Race in Aesthetic Formation (under contract with Duke University Press) considers how legal notions of property become foundational to avant-garde and modern understandings of innovation in the arts. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program, and Yale’s Poynter Fellowship.

essays

2020 We Owe Our Antagonizers NOTHING: a Review of Dorothy Wang’s “Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry”

2020 remain     | un | conquered

2019 On the Colonial Inheritance of 2001

2018 Towards a World Without War: A Conversation with Transnational Activist Jungmin Choi

2018-2016 other essays from contemptorary

2015 The Politics of Trending

2015 Neoliberal Aesthetics: 250cm Line on 6 Paid People. Lateral Journal of Cultural Studies.

2014 The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women co-written with Maya Isabella Mackrandilal

2014 Refusal=Intervention “Asian American Poetry” is not a manageable category—it is not a list co-written with Don Mee Choi

2015 Art Without Artists! Against the Artist CEO co-written with Maya Isabella Mackrandilal. The essay was translated into Spanish by Sara Plaza for the newspaper Rebelion El arte sin artistas: contra el artista CEO