Readings and Conversation with Portia Choi

Portia Choi is a Bakersfield-based poet who immigrated to the United States at the age of 8 from Korea. She lived through the Korean War, and she and her family experienced homelessness and other hardships during and after the conflict. Much of her poetry is autobiographical, and her 2013 book of poems, Sungsook: Korean War Poems, speaks to her early childhood and surviving the war.
If you'd like more information about poetry open mics in Bakersfield or her poetry, you can contact Portia Choi at [e-mail].