Madi Vander Ark, Untitled. Courtesy of the artist.
I’ve got a jug of liquid glee
Five poems by Bai Juyi (白居易), translated from Chinese by Aaron Poochigian
Kawanabe Kyōsai, Rats and Gourd, 1887.
looking into the next life
Three poems by Ma Hua, translated from Chinese by Winnie Zeng
parted by death, we choke
Five poems from In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century, translated by Wong May
Julien Nguyen, Resolute in Privation, 2021. © Julien Nguyen, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
jumping out of one building and into another
Three poems by Ma Yan, translated from Chinese by Stephen Nashef
Édouard Vuillard, Woman by the Window, 1898.
In those days, I still lived. I hadn’t burned out
Three poems by Yang Xiaobin, translated from Chinese by Canaan Morse
Do not try to fool me with purity.
Three poems by Liu Xia, translated from Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern
under a red regime I find a self as yet unnamed
Two poems by Ya Shi translated from Chinese by Nick Admussen
Can any of us save ourselves? Save another?
“A Single Woman’s Room” by Yi Lei, translated from the Chinese by Changtai Bi and Tracy K. Smith