It’s become a routine feature of the Asian American poet’s life: waking up to your inbox full of messages asking, “Have you seen this?” And it’s never good. A few months ago, it was the news that a ...

Eighth century Chinese poet Du Fu, one of the most admired lyric poets in the world, left behind some 1,400 poems and a record of a life that translator and editor David Young has now turned into a ...

Chinese poetry today is divisive. One view regards it as highly invigorating — so much so that some have proclaimed the advent of a “golden age.” Others, however, believe that poetry these days is not ...

PORT TOWNSEND — “I met a monk in Chinatown and he taught me how to meditate …” This isn’t the first line of a novel, but it pretty much reflects the foundation of Bill Porter’s unexpected life of good ...

For centuries, Chinese women's poetry has seldom been the focus of the scholarly community. In particular, studies on women writers in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, the ...

When the then-20-year-old poet Guo Lusheng, better known by his nom de plume “Shizhi” or “Index Finger,” completed his “Ocean Trilogy” in 1968, the Cultural Revolution was still in its infancy.

Xu Daoning, Chinese (ca. 970–1052). / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Nature has provided a source of inspiration for Chinese poets and painters for thousands of years. An exhibition at the ...

Bill Porter translates ancient Chinese poetry using the name Red Pine. (Photo by Jeff Baker) PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. – To get to Red Pine's house from the middle of town, you have to dodge some deer.

What’s more likely to get your poem published: a “white” name or a Chinese one? The Asian American Writers’ Workshop has responded to the controversy around “Chinese” poet “Yi-Fen Chou” (actually ...

This historic reading, Women on Fire: Three Chinese American Women Poets, Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong, celebrates the 35th anniversary reunion of these pioneer poets, who broke ground as ...