-
Authors
-
Category Archives: Chinese poetry
Original poems by me and Wei Hui
This last trip to Beijing involved delivering my own poems written for the first time in Chinese. In fact, its been twenty years since I’ve written a poem anyway, so the language shift did not seem such a daunting task, … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese poetry, closer to home
Tagged poetry collaboration, translation, Wei Hui 魏慧, 中秋节
Leave a comment
Xi Chuan in Seattle
Poets Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan were in Seattle on September 29. They were reading at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, first iteration of a multi-city tour including Chicago, New York, Washington. Prior to these major cities, though, … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese poetry, Contemporary poetry
Tagged monsoon cafe, poetry, Push Open the Window, Xi Chuan
1 Comment
Wang Qiang (Mai Cheng) or, Two Poetic Nights in Dalian
I met the poet Mai Cheng 麦城 (pen name of Wang Qiang 王强, left, pictured here with Yan Li 严力) a number of years back in Seattle, which is to say totally out of his element. I met him again … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese poetry, Contemporary poetry, Yan Li
Tagged Chinese poetry, Dalian, Mai Cheng 麦城， Denis Mair, Wang Qiang
Leave a comment
Chinese Contemporary word and image
My usual weekly post now slowed by the poetry-art project. I’m now returning to visual-verbal intersections in contemporary era. At the upcoming AAS we will be presenting on Modernism in Chinese poetry (Panel 81), and I will be focusing on … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Chinese poetry, Contemporary poetry, Art-Poetry Intersection, Luo Qing
Tagged 祁国, 李占刚, 妙悟书法, Chinese calligraphy
Leave a comment
the concrete poem
Back to work on poetry again after what seems a long foray into art-only (+ politics, I guess) topics. Of late, current writing concerns self-portraits in word and image, with an ancillary focus on the concrete poem. The latter is … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Chinese poetry, Contemporary poetry, Chen Li, Luo Qing
Tagged Luo Qing, Concrete poem, Zhan Bing, Chen Li, Lo Ch'ing
Leave a comment
“Written Words Make a Wall” video–Yan Li’s painting and poetry
One more in my video series, this one with cameo by Lucia, an avid if still somewhat imperfect reader. The short poem series that frames, textually, the video is ongoing. Numbering already in the thousands, Yan Li regularly groups and … Continue reading
Poetry/Art in China, September 2010
Late September I was in China for the second annual PoeticChina, a reading and roundtable conference of contemporary poets held in conjunction with Fall, 2010 Mid-Autumn Festival. The event was held by the China Millennium Monument in Beijing 北京世纪坛. I … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese poetry, Contemporary poetry
Tagged Beijing poetry scene, Xi Chuan, Yan Li
2 Comments
