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Behaving Normally to Fight
the Climate Crisis
by Raymond Welch

November 25, 2019

We got into the climate mess through normal economic behavior. Can we get ourselves out the same way? For a couple of weeks each of ... Read More...

Review:
The Law of the Unforeseen: Poems

April 1, 2019

Reviews + Reads

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Sibyl James reviews The Law of the Unforeseen, poems by Edward Harkness Pleasure Boat Studio Press | 2018 | ISBN:&nbs... Read More...

Letter to America
by Christopher Merrill

September 17, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

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Guest Editorial Dear America, On Memorial Day weekend I attend a forum in Nanjing that drew sinologists from around the world for di... Read More...

Letter to America: The Little Painter, by Joy Castro

Letter to America
by Joy Castro

January 29, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

The Little Painter I am just a little painter, a painter of small things. In the National Palace of Mexico, I saw that artist... Read More...

Wildlife Trafficking in Mongla
by Naomi Hellmann

October 4, 2016

Nonfiction

Mongla (勐拉) lies on the border of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern China and the Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Sit... Read More...

Existence: A Story
by David Hinton

October 2, 2016

Nonfiction

The story of existence is a self-portrait, and it begins with a little-known Chinese landscape painting by Shih-t'ao. This is the sto... Read More...

Four Poems by Wang Wei
Translated by David Hinton

October 4, 2015

Poetry

Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China’s 3,000-year po... Read More...

Eight Poems by Wang An-shih
Translated by David Hinton

July 15, 2015

Poetry

These poems are excerpted from The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih translated by David Hinton (New Directions, 2015). They are reprinted by permissio... Read More...

Two Poems
by Allan Peterson

June 8, 2015

Poetry

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Click button above to play audio for this poem, or click here to download in .mp3 format.House House says it can see two trees twicein the doub... Read More...

Hong Kong through the Looking Glass:
Bodies Washed Up On the Shore
by Dante Archangeli

September 10, 2014

Currents, Hong Kong Looking Glass

By Dante Archangeli "I remember the dead bodies of people from mainland China washing up on our shores when I was a child in Hong Kong during the 1960's," the Chinese man at the reception told me. "In 1967 or '68 my father was so worried that we'd be overrun by refugees escaping the Cultural Revolution that he sent me to live in Taiwan."

Review: A Tryst with Time

May 31, 2014

Reviews + Reads

Michael G. Smith Reviews This Time Tomorrow, Poems by Matthew Thorburn This Time Tomorrow by Matthew Thorburn Waywiser Press, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-... Read More...

Odes to the Little Ones:
A Chapbook by Jeevan Narney

April 6, 2013

Chapbook, Issue 32, Poetry

The poems in this online chapbook of poetry, images, and audio were inspired by Jeevan Narney's two-year stay in Dezhou, China. They reflect upo... Read More...

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