[email protected]. Founder and Editor Meifu Wang A TASTE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETRY . From 2012 to 2015, our team worked with a group of Chinese poets in China to introduce contemporary Chinese poetry to the wider world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS ; These poems were published originally in Chinese in literary magazines across China between 2000 and 2015; their English version first appeared on this website and in 21st Century Chinese Poetry (Washington DC, USA; ISSN 2166-3688) between 2012 and 2015. 以下诗歌英文版首发于《廿一世纪中国诗歌》 （美国，华盛顿; 国际期刊号 ISSN 2166 …

From 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 6 . All the more unwilling to leave this old house, all the more not wanting to abandon an earthen jar or a pitcher.

From 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 2 . No more dew, only the monotonous frost, and the wind returns with a frigid touch. Here, with the sweet scent of dry stalks

From 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 11 . Thousands of mountains, not a bird in flight. Solitary is the black heron, walking from stem to stern, in the river and out, singing:

From 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 4 . It stands there like a loose tooth; peeking through a mountain gap. The broken glass has been patched up with a newspaper

Ban Ruo 班若 (班琳丽). b. 1973 Ban Ruo was born in Xia’yi, Henan Province. She is a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association, and has published a collection of poems “Singing Solo”, two novels Songs for a Female Voice and The Heart of the Earth, and a collection of short stories.She lives in Shangqiu, Henan Province.

We enthusiastically encourage you to share your works with worldwide readers through our poetry journal: 1) Chinese poems by living poets from all geographic areas, to be translated by the journal's translation team.

From 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 13 . I believe; migrations happen; not only after massacres; but also because one race; longs for some distant place

This book combines Nos. 1 - 5 of 21st Century Chinese Poetry and includes 129 poems by 40 poets. Edition A is bilingual, simplified Chinese -- English.