Binyeo (hair pin): Sekyo Nam Haines

Sekyo Nam Haines is an artist, published poet and translator. Her first book, Bitter Seasons' Whip: The Complete Poems of Lee Yuk Sa, was published in 2022 (Tolsun Books). Her poems appeared in the poetry journals Constellations, Off the Coast, and Lily Poetry Review, and elsewhere.Her translations of Kim Sowohl’s poetry appeared in The Harvard Review,TheBrooklyn Rail: In Translation, Ezra, and Circumference. Sekyo lives in Cambridge, MA with her family.

Sekyo shares the story behind a silver pin she found in the attic of her childhood home hidden in her mother’s broken makeup box. She shares how this object has become a token of the culture she comes from and her connection with her mother and grandmother even if she cannot wear it due to her short hair.