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Ishle Yi Park (Issil) is a poet & singer who lives in Hawai'i. She was the first woman to become Poet Laureate of Queens, New York (2004-2007). Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry of 2003, Ploughshares, Manoa, Echoes Upon Echoes, and Century of the Tiger: 100 Years of Korean Culture in America. Her first book, The Temperature of This Water, is the recipient of 3 awards: The Members' Choice Award of The Asian American Writers' Workshop, Pen America's Award for Outstanding Writers of Color, and a Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS). She has performed her poems & songs across the United States and abroad, at Splore, the Parihaka Peace Festival in New Zealand, Singapore Writers' Conference, Calabash Arts Festival in Jamaica, and Poetry Africa & Arts Alive in South Africa.

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