The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experiences. –Emily Dickinson
Glad to visit NanJing University and have wonderful discussions with Dean Jiang and his colleagues.
Here is my new poem in Chinese: 赠别
南苑门口的几株蔷薇
开放在爬山虎墙沿。
这个季节本该归于宁静，
我却想往。
昨夜的风不再，行人也已去，
我的笔徒然描画着＂春＂，
就好象星云法师的“山水禅心”。
北大楼前留的影，外院门口的笑，
“青葱”的咖啡香，暮色中地铁出口的人群，
依次驶过人生的站台-
相见时满面春风，离去后还会依旧？
我的心象雨点，花开又花落-
只愿我不是过客，却是归人。
So glad to have successfully launched my new book “Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac” published by Black Moss Press on Nov 6, 2015. All proceeds from the sale of my books at AGM has been donated to local cancer care at Trillium Health Partners. A special thank you to the Art Gallery of Mississauga for sponsoring the event. Thank poets Richard Greene, Kateri Lanthier, Cheryl Xavier and Daniel Tysdal joining me reading and performers include Selena Xu and Amy Chan playing GuZhen, Heather Brissenden and Matt Zadkovich singing and Craig Manning performing “Hallelujah”.
Here is the agenda with performers’ information. Here are photos by ShiYing and Gary Gu.
Thank Mississauga News, CCNews, Lovingsisters Rogers TV, SNAP North and more media covering this event.
Seven Nights With The Chinese Zodiac is Anna Yin at her maturing best. Each poem, like a portal, invites the reader into another sphere and dimension, but the journey to such places
illuminates, in an evocative way, the world of matter and history, the flux and thinness of secular time.
Read more on the online Clarion Journal (Nov 2, 2015)