Biography: Afaa Michael Weaver is a spoken word poet, playwright, short fiction writer, translator, editor, and journalist. He received his M.A. in Creative Writing (1987) from Brown University, where he worked with Alan Trueblood in translation. Afaa has been a Pew fellow and taught in Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar. His tenth collection of poetry(2007) is The Plum [...]
“In time what is now considered ancient will become more so.”
The considerable weight of many centuries of ancient poetry weighs on the modern as much as it inspires the same among Chinese poets writing today. In time what is now considered ancient will become more so. Chinese poets are writing out of their own cultural context, and I might add that every poet does. Western [...]
