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Yuan Changming Reads “Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: a Bilinguacultural Poem about Heart”

Yuan Changming July 10, 2023

Yuan Changming, author of   “Lesson One in Chinese Character/s: a Bilinguacultural Poem about Heart”  from Volume 72.2, reads his poem out loud.
 

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.