Summoning Li Bai: My Guest Blog for National Poetry Month!

My publisher’s wonderful marketing staff connected me with YA author, anthologist, and poet Emily Kristin Anderson, who invited me to participate in her National Poetry Month blog series.  In my article, I start discussing how I translated the first poem I had ever memorized as a child (夜思 or “Night Thoughts” by Li Bai, one of China’s most famous poets who lived during the Tang Dynasty).  Then I transition into how my early love of Chinese poetry influenced me while writing poems for Summoning the Phoenix.

Read Summoning Li Bai & see more of April Chu’s wonderful art!

Thank you, Emily, for including me in your celebration of National Poetry Month!

Childhood poetry
living in my memory
guides my artistry.

 

 

 

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