Franny Choi is the author of several books, including Soft Science, Floating, Brilliant, Gone, and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is currently an Arthur Levitt Jr. Artist-in-Residence at Williams College. In her third book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco Books), Choi offers a poetry collection for the ends of worlds – past, present, and future. There are poems about historical and impending apocalypses alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. These poems remind us that, for marginalized peoples, the apocalypse has already come in myriad ways. They spin backward and forwards in time – from Korean comfort women during World War II and the precipice of the climate crisis to children wandering a museum in the future. As she wrestles with the daily griefs of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what togetherness could look like.
