Anna Yin's Poetry Alive

Thank teachers for booking me for Poets in Schools programs every year. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council and the League of Canadian Poet for funding.  Due to COVID-19, we will use Virtual Class visits!

In April 2021, for National Poetry Month, I will visit three schools, we will have a great time. Thanks

• Francis Libermann school (Grade 11th)
• Bowmore Road Jr & Sr ( Grade 6th)
• Mother Teresa Catholic School (Grade 6th)

Thank Department of English, Jahangirnagar University for inviting me to talk about my poetry journey and read poetry for them. They hope together we celebrate the World Poetry Day of 2021. You are welcome to join us on March 22.

I am thrilled to have my poem published in renown Queen’s Quarterly (Spring 2021), Thank the editors!

Check: Other international publications

I am honored to celebrate Live Encounters Poetry & Writing 11th anniversary with four of my new poems:  AY LE P&W Dec 2020 (1)

• Winter Solstice
• Beginning of Autumn
• Hill Song
• On Translation   

Thanks  Mark Ulyseas and Terry McDonagh, Guest Editorial, Read digital mag on phone

Other 4 poems on 2020/07

Poetry in Translation /East Meets West

A series of online events focus on poetry and translation by reading and discussing original poems then translations between poets and translator.  The poets are George Elliott Clarke, Molly Peacock, Alice Major and A. F. Moritz, and the translator is Anna Yin

There are four great One on One sessions, one group session, hosted by Sureway Solutions Ltd, co-hosted by The East and West Learning Club:

• Aug 14, Molly Peacock and Anna Yin : recorded video
• Aug 29, A.F.Moritz and Anna Yin  recorded video
• Sept 11, Alice Major and Anna Yin (recorded video)
• Sept 25. George Elliott Clarke and Anna Yin (recorded video)
• Oct 3, All four poets and Michael Mirolla (Guernica Editions) join the group session

Videos for the four sessions and group session:  (review for past sessions)

Live Encounters Books October 2020, Thank Mark Ulyseas for promoting and publishing reviews on poetry books! Thank Kateri Lanthier.

Thanks Brooklin Poetry Society and judge, KV Skene! Congrats to all winners:Anna Yin, Bänoo Zan and Marsha Barber, and our honourable mentions, Andrea Rachel, Mansour Noorbakhsh and Lynn Tait!!

• Also Three of my Chinese poems were published in Epoch Poetry Quarterly (Taiwan) #204 (礼物，穿越，流言）

• My essay for Covid 19 has been published in Global Pandemic Crisis: a series of literary essays on quarantine

刊 首 語

Thank Live Encounters publishing George Elliott Clarke – Review Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac by Anna Yin

Anna Yin is a startling dreamer. Poems that seem Romantic veer into Surrealism or Symbolism. Tutored in Sylvia Plath and William Carlos Williams, among many other poets (mainly American and Canadian), Yin issues poems that are nightmare dreams or dreamy nightmares: Here’s a world where the natural becomes unnatural, the unnatural natural: “the police-monkey escorts a well-suited rat / followed by his cloned brothers…” Some poems are parables, such as the story of a man- a father-who refuses to leave his home, even while it and others are being reduced to rubble: “I received a copy of the photo in the local newspaper. / My father looked so small on the top of the ruins. / It was titled, ‘The Last Temple.’”
In another poem, the speaker says, “You are tired of his / molding, over and over, / thrashing, nailing / into you.” There’s a fierce feminism here, reinforced by readings of Dot Livesay and Dame Atwood. Though it’s tricky following Yin’s wicked, impressionistic juxtapositions, her painterly imagery is deliciously lustrous.
Yin is endlessly perspicacious, endlessly compelling: “The autumn gusts feel warm / as if it’s spring…. / last night by accident I cut my finger… / slowly, on the rice paper, red roses grew.” She brings to Canadian poetry a sense of classicism and aestheticism and minimalism, all nicely mixed up with sensuality.
Yin’s bravura poems – so exquisite and extraordinary – merit bravo upon bravo.

Publisher’s website:
https://blackmosspress.com/dd-product/seven-nights-with-the-chinese-zodiac/

The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke is a revered artist in song, drama, fiction, screenplay, essays, and poetry. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1960, Clarke was educated at the University of Waterloo, Dalhousie University, and Queen’s University. Clarke is also a pioneering scholar of African-Canadian literature. A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Clarke has taught at Duke, McGill, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. He holds eight honorary doctorates, plus appointments to the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer. His recognitions include the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. Photo Credit of George Elliott Clarke : Harvard University.

Live Encounters _ George Elliott Clarke – Review_br_Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac by Anna Yin

Anna Yin was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and has authored five collections of poetry. Her poems/translations have appeared at ARC Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal etc. Anna won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTYs, two scholarships from West Chester University Poetry Conference, three grants from OAC and 2013 Professional Achievement Award from CPAC. She performed her poetry on Parliament Hill and has been featured at 2015 Austin International Poetry Festival and 2017 National poetry month project etc. She teaches Poetry Alive at schools, colleges and libraries. Her website: https://www.annapoetry.com/

In March, I was asked to write for 2020 #NationalPoetryMonth and today #CanadianPoets published it with my online poetry alive workshop.

Please check the article on the Leagues of Canadian Poets: A World of Poetry: Life and Truth by Anna Yin

In this lovely article including both English and Chinese poetry, Anna shares how writing poetry has provided light and meaning in her life as well as the monumental impact poetry brings to others.

A World of Poetry_ Life and Truth – League of Canadian Poets

Anna Yin Read her poem in English at 2019 Chinese Poetry Festival 

Anna Yin Read at 2018 Chinese Poetry Festival