"Bad" English Is Part Of My Korean American Heritage
Once a source of shame, but I now say it proudly: bad English is my heritage.
Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program in poetry.
Once a source of shame, but I now say it proudly: bad English is my heritage.
Once a source of shame, but I now say it proudly: bad English is my heritage.