When I was young, Romantic poetry was very popular in China; we read the Chinese translations of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems. I remember that everyone liked to quote his lines: “O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? “ We admired him as a passionate poet with charming lyrics and a revolutionary vision.
The online course THE GREAT POEMS SERIES SHELLEY founded by Eric Alan Weinstein is great and amazing. I believe it takes a lot of courage and effort to set up courses like that. In this fast-paced and cynical world, to teach and to learn Romantic poetry, especially long poems, presents teachers and students with extreme challenges. Most of us lack the patience and motivation for this. When I was preparing this talk, my fellow Chinese poets wondered if there was still an interest in this subject. They believe that Romantic poetry is out of fashion. Continue reading
glad to read at Toronto Poetry Map Launch
Toronto Poetry Map Launch at Toronto Reference Library Atrium on April 15: the official launch of our online Toronto Poetry Map in collaboration with Toronto’s fourth Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke.
Glad to read my poems about Union Station and Mill Street Brew from Inhaling the Silence (Mosaic Press 2013), Beyond the Soapstone from Wings Toward Sunlight (Mosaic Press 2011) are on the map, hopefully “Toronto, No More Weeping” will be on the map too.
让诗歌引领你游历多伦多 (谢谢Yafang 的报道）
Glad to read at Open Muse Connection Featuring: Anna Yin & Orchid Tierney
Thanks Eric Alan Weinstein and Michael A. Cohen for the invitation and I was glad to read at Da Vinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia with other talented artists on April 13
I was also glad to attended the UPenn Shelley Seminar and gave a talk about Shelley for online course: THE GREAT POEMS SERIES SHELLEY