Checking CBC Books: 45 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in fall 2021An Appreciation by John Robert Colombo (poets.ca) (2021/08/12 book review)
Anna van Valkenburg : From East to West : An interview with Anna Yin (2021/09/05) (on periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics)
Here is a video to introduce the book.
Thank Aurora Public Library, Ontario for designing this and planning the event! Thanks to Reccia and Lucy! Register the event here.
In 2019, we had Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice- at Aurora Public Library… here are some great photos for Aurora library… Thanks.
Joh
n Robert Colombo, one of the founders of the League of Canadian Poets, is known as “the Master Gatherer” for his compilations of works of Canadiana, including volumes devoted to Canadian songs, poems, myths, and legends.
Thanks John and thank the League of Canadian Poets posting the review.
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with a fun and interactive poetry appreciation event hosted by Anna Yin at Zoom Meeting。 There will be haiku and photo matching activities, fun moon-view games, and the poetry guessing game “Mirrors and Windows” that will help you write your own poetry. To join please register at Vancouver Public Library site. Thanks Diann.
Topic: Celebrate Moon Festival with Your Own Haiku
Time: Sep 16, 2021 05:30 PM Vancouver
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81702348229?pwd=blpMTTB5U0FYQzRvUWlMbzBvb3MxUT09
Meeting ID: 817 0234 8229
Passcode: 705427
My friends–and comrade poets/translators:
Anna Yin’s editorship of Mirrors and Windows (just published), an INTERNATIONAL anthology of poems that she has translated from English into Chinese and from Chinese into English is a landmark–an exquisitely rendered, intellectual/artistic touchstone–for the continued conversation between English (Canadian) poets and those of China that she has been singlehandedly enhancing (on the Canadian side) for at least a decade now.
Anna’s Poundian contribution to our mutual enrichment is graced spectacularly by poet-publisher Michael Mirolla of Guernica Editions, who not only agreed to publish this significant volume, but has graced it with a memorably elegant, yet plain cover–like the moon-over-water that so besotted Li Po. Once again, Guernica has served notice that it is an international heavy-hitter.
《Mirrors and Windows/镜子与窗户》includes 39 accomplished English-language poets’ work with my Chinese translation, and 20 skilled Chinese-language poets’ work with my English translation. It provides various styles and topics from the work of a wide range of ages of modern poets of East and West. Thanks Guernica Editions for beautiful design! You can order the book on Guernica Editions now or on Amazon. Also thank WePoetry to promote it:【海外詩粹】星子安娜譯作精選｜鏡子與窗戶
Here is a video to introduce the book.
Please check upcoming events to celebrate East Meets West and the book:
Sept 16, 2021: Celebrate the Moon Festival with Your Own Haiku – 這個中秋淺吟俳句 Sept 30, 2021: East Meets West: Mirrors and Windows, online reading and interview at Aurora Library and more...
So glad that my poem: Picking up a Dandelion was selected for Poetry In Voice anthology. Thank you Sarah Tsiang for selecting it. Please check the interview on Poetry in Voice…. I also want to thank #CBC Radio and Lorna Crozier for that poem… Once I listened to CBC radio to an interview of Lorna Crozier about her poems: Sex Lives of Vegetables, I was blown away…I wanted to challenge myself to write like that. So I wrote “Picking Up a Dandelion”, which is a poem that could be read both erotically and spiritually. I also translated it into Chinese.
湖畔沙龙：诗歌创作和翻译公众讲座 （7月17日, 2021）
主讲诗人：星子安娜 主持： 诗人古土。
分享加拿大双语诗歌创作/出版/翻译等经验以及有关轶事。
Hu Pan School invited Anna Yin to share her processes of writing poetry and translating poetry. Host: Poet Gu Tu (诗人古土）Speaker: Anna Yin (Language : Chinese)
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
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!
Thank you all. These two workshops are fully booked.
Here are poems I discussed on March 20, 2021, please feel free to read them .
【海外詩粹】星子安娜譯作精選｜鏡子與窗戶
Thank WePoetry 【海外詩粹】for a special issue of poetry and translation for 《Mirrors and Windows/镜子与窗户》 ( 2021-01-17. USA)
作家哈金曾经说过：對汉语寫作者而言用英文寫作是很難的。那就像蓋房子：別人蓋房子，就地取材就可以了，而你卻要連牆磚這些基件都要自己動手。
I am honored to celebrate Live Encounters Poetry & Writing 11th anniversary with four of my new poems: AY LE P&W Dec 2020 (1)
Thanks Mark Ulyseas and Terry McDonagh, Guest Editorial, Read digital mag on phone
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:
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!!
刊 首 語
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: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/
Last year I was in Rome and wrote poems to celebrate Canada Day. In 2015 and 2016 I read my poems for Canada Day as Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate. This year is different. I stay home to say my hello. So glad the videos/photos/poems bring us good memories. I wish you all Happy Canada Day!
Thanks Susan McMaster for reviewing my fifth poetry collection, so glad that the review is on review page of the League of Canadian Poets.
A World of Poetry: Life and Truth
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
