Wenyi Xiao

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Wenyi Xiao is an emerging bilingual poet based in Beijing and a scholar in contemporary poetics. Her work appears in TipTon Poetry Journal, the Prose Poem, Prosetrics, and Voices Unbound (An Anthology of International Poetry).

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Wenyi Xiao  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

The light fades, slowly. You are starting to see things assembled in a particular way / like a kaleidoscope and you have become nothing but an eye.