Join
us when painter and poet Yan Li visits
the Writers’ Center to read some of his poems and share some of his insights
on the current and ever-changing state of the arts in China.
Yan Li was part of the famous Stars Movement which brought contemporary art to China during the politically relaxed Xiaoping’s rule after Mao. A painter before he became a poet, he has had numerous exhibitions of his art work in New York and Chinese galleries over the last 30 years. His oil painting, Resting Farmer, was collected by the Asia Modern Museum of Fukuoka, Japan.
Mr. Li has published a number of books of fiction and poetry including Spinning Polyhedral Mirror, The Highest Funeral, Drunken Story, and Selected Poems by Yan Li. He is the editor of First Line, a quarterly poetry magazine established in New York in 1987. He has read in various venues around the world including the Readers Club of Literature & Art Press, Shanghai, China; Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Harvard Yenching Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Knitting Factory, New York City; and the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City, with Allen Ginsberg.
$3 Donation Requested
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the Taft Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.