Weijia Pan
Weijia Pan is a poet and translator from Shanghai, China. His poems appear in AGNI, Boulevard, the Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, the Georgia Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He’s a third-year MFA candidate at the University of Houston, where he won the Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry. His manuscript Motherlands was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2024.
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Peppered Path
She walks the heady perfume of pepper-scented roads, Strides through clumps of spikenard, scattering their fragrance. —from “The Goddess of the Luo,” by Cao Zhi (192–232) they used to sprinkle the path with pepper so that it smelled good, assuring. that it was firm, straight a good will. that no one who ever trod […]