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2019 Shanghai International Literary Festival appearance with Han Bo, Monika Lin and Jacob Dreyer

  We’ll be launching our debut bilingual poetry chapbook, Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway at noon on Tuesday, March 19 at the 2019 Shanghai International Literary Festival. The event will be in Chinese and English, featuring Han Bo reading his poetry alongside my translations. Book designer (and partner extraordinaire) Monika Lin and writer, art critic, and editor Jacob Dreyer will […]

Soft focus, soft censorship, self-censorship: “Poetry,” “China,” and Biz Journo Expats

As much of a pleasure as it was to appear at the Shanghai International Literary Festival with Jen Bervin, Jen Hyde and Wen Jin, it was one mixed — as is always the case for me here in Shanghai — with significant measures of the odd and the off. Don’t get me wrong: One of the things I like about life in […]

Shanghai International Literary Festival appearances

    I’ll be reading and speaking at two SILF events. First, Saturday 11 March at 2pm, with Austin Woerner and Nina Powles, I’ll be reading a few poems and previewing the Thursday 16 6pm reading and panel discussion with Jen Bervin, Wen Jin and Jen Hyde. Thursday’s event has been long in the making, bringing […]