In the first half of 2015, several grassroots poets become famous overnight through the Internet and we-media. However, they soon sank into obscurity. The phenomenon drew Chinese critics' attention, ...

It’s become a routine feature of the Asian American poet’s life: waking up to your inbox full of messages asking, “Have you seen this?” And it’s never good. A few months ago, it was the news that a ...

Berlin, Germany--(Newsfile Corp. - June 30, 2025) - From June 8th to June 14th, 2025, under the invitation of the Haus für Poesie (House of Poetry) in Germany, the Chinese cultural non-profit ...

Chinese poetry today is divisive. One view regards it as highly invigorating — so much so that some have proclaimed the advent of a “golden age.” Others, however, believe that poetry these days is not ...

What do you feel about contemporary Chinese poetry, compared with Russian poetry and with ancient Chinese poetry? We enjoyed the quality and the depth of the poems we read and listened to. Some of the ...

In 724 A.D., the twenty-three-year-old poet Li Bai got on a boat and set out from his home region of Shu, today’s Sichuan province, in search of Daoist learnings and a political career. He wasn’t ...

A prestigious poetry anthology is under fire for including a poem by a white author who published some of his work under a Chinese pen name in order to gain editors’ attention. The poem, called “The ...