YUAN CHANGMING

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Standing tall against the frozen sky
Your skeletons are the exquisite calligraphy
                             Of an entire season
Your name is curly writ
Not in water
But with wind  

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Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Naji Naaman's Literary Prize 2018, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1,449 others worldwide.