The Meridian Series of Contemporary Chinese Poets: A Reading (Zoom)

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Lan Lan

 Chinese poet and essayist Lan Lan, born 1967 in Yantai, Shandong province, began publishing at 14. Her many poetry volumes, prose poems, essays, criticism, and collections for children have established her as one of contemporary China's most prominent authors. Lan Lan's foreign language collections include the bilingual Chinese/English Canyon in the Body, as well as those in Russian, Thai, and Spanish.  Her awards include the Poetry and People International Poetry Prize, the Yuan Kejia Poetry Award, the Chinese Media Literature Prize, and the Su Shi Poetry Award. She has been named an honorary citizen of Chios and Oinousses, Homer's Greek birthplace.  

George O’Connell

Award-winning American poet, translator, and editor George O’Connell has taught creative writing and literature many years in the US, also serving as Fulbright professor at Peking University and National Taiwan University. Recipients of two NEA Literature Translation Fellowships, he and Diana Shi have published multiple collections. Impossible Paradise, their English volume of Taiwan poet Chen Yuhong,…