Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include twelve nominations for The Pushcart Prize, fifteen chapbooks, and appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008–17), Best New Poems Online, and Poetry Daily, among 1989 others, across forty-nine countries. Yuan was a poetry judge for Canada’s 2021 National Magazine Awards. Early in 2022, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction.
Reading List
Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: a Bilinguacultural Poem about Heart
感：/găn/ perception takes place when salt rubs in to the open wound of the heart 闷: /mēn/ depressed whenever your heart is shut behind a door 忌：/jì/ jealousy implies there being one’s self only in the heart 悲：/bēi/ sorrow comes from the negation of the heart 惑：/huò/ confusion occurs when there are too many an […]
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Yuan Changming Reads “Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: a Bilinguacultural Poem about Heart”
Yuan Changming, author of “Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: a Bilinguacultural Poem about Heart” from Volume 72.2, reads his poem out loud.
A cross cultural understanding: David interviews Yuan Changming
David Siew Hii, our editorial fellow in poetry for issue 72.2, interviewed every poet in the issue. To better center their voices,they removed their questions, giving them more space to talk about poetry and life. The document that follows is a curated, compressed version of that conversation. Read Yuan’s poem “Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: […]