Changming Yuan

Yuan Changming grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age 19, and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction, 16 solo poetry chapbooks as well as appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline among 2,029 other literary outlets across 49 countries. Yuan was a poetry judge for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards. In 2022, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction, with their first (hybrid) novel MABAKOOLA: PARADISE REGAINED forthcoming in 2025.
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Lovelines: a group of love poems

Like more than 150 others, these love pieces are inspired by and thus devoted to my long-lost but recently refound…

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First English Class

Ming was over the moon when he began to attend senior high school in New Rivermouth, the county seat of…

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Mayuhe Revisited

On the morning of October 28th, my brother drove us to Mayuhe, the forest farm on the southern bank of…

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New Year’s Gift

Ming never really liked his old man. He didn’t know exactly why. While everyone he hang around with had something…

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Emotional Curiosity (2)

He doesn’t know how curiosity can kill a cat, but he’s acutely aware how it’s killing himself. Ever since she…

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Heart Game

One again, he has fallen in love with her. There are as many reasons known as those unknown to him;…

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Decoding Autumn

A nature poem

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Again, for First Love: For Qi Hong

You are sure that I have never really forgotten you. You Are sure about my teenage years. You know everything…

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On the Scale (with another 4 poems)

5 Recent Poems

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Cage & Bird

Cage & Bird by Changming YuanI am a cage, in search of a bird. — KafkaWherever my mind flies, it’s…

Canada

Morning Melody and other poems

Morning Melody and other poems by Changming Yuan [morning melody] You might have stayed up All night, clicking at every…

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