This week on Write On Radio Host Lynette Reini-Grandell speaks with local poet Sun Yung Shin about her new book of poetry, Skirt Full of Black, and Co-Host Matthew Rucker waxes poetic with some of the local team members of the Minneapolis Spoken Word Slam Team.

About Skirt Full of Black:

Shin's poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman's life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is generous, and an erotic, physical sense of language both remembered and forgotten, these poems are at once social critique and personal intimation, worth revisiting again and again."-Jane Jeong Trenka

As Sun Yung Shin spins new myths from Catholic and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of transnational adoptees, crafting a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Visit her website at www.sunyungshin.com.

About Sun Yung Shin:

Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul and grew up in Chicago. She is author of the children's book Cooper's Lesson and an editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. After living in Boston and Pittsburgh, she moved to the Twin Cities and now teaches at the Perpich Center for Arts Education. Currently she is a 2007 Bush Artists Fellow for Literature and is taking a one-year leave from her position in the English department at the Perpich Center for Arts Education. She will return to full-time teaching in the fall of 2008.

Her current writing projects include a memoir, perhaps some fiction, and a second poetry manuscript.