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Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

USA - NORTH KOREA

A North Korea born American, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is a renowned independent filmmaker/writer, known for championing the compelling but neglected issues of human rights. All of her films garnered many awards, including the Kodak Filmmaker Award, and were screened at numerous festivals worldwide in addition to national broadcast on PBS and on the Sundance Channel in the United States. She has received grants from the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations. Formerly professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College with a Ph.D in religion from Boston University, and an author of many articles, Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women is her first book (The Philadelphia Inquirer, "unforgettable") and her second book is Looking for Don: A Meditation. She has completed editing and compiling a memoir by her late husband, Donald D. Gibson, Iowa Sky: a Memoir, scheduled to be published in January 2013.

 

 

 

For Noah Pozner
(Newtown CT, Dec. 2012)

Imagine the world of invisible light,
souls drenched in glory,
the red blood in your body
streaming through it to keep
you alive.


But there was no death written
in invisible light for Noah Pozner.
He does not care to be merged
in universal energy. He wants to be
a funny boy of six, watching the
giants play, and tease his twin sister
Arielle and older sister, Sophia.


He wants his blood back
red and flowing in his body.

 

 

 

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