Join the editors of Slapering Hol Press (SHP) and the Hudson Valley Writers Center for a hybrid (both in-person and virtual) reading featuring poets and translators from SHP's Meridian Series of Contemporary Chinese Poets. The reading will feature poets Lan Lan and Quan Zi, and the work of Huang Jiyun and Zhang Shuguang. If you are joining us virtually, please register through this ticket to receive the Zoom link.

Wang Jiaxin, Director of the Meridian Poets Series, will introduce the poets featured in the series. Lan Lan and Quan Zi will perform live readings of their works.

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Chinese poet and essayist Lan Lan, born 1967 in Yantai, Shandong province, began publishing at 14. Her many poetry volumes, prose poems, essays, criticism, and collections for children have established her as one of contemporary China's most prominent authors. Lan Lan's foreign language collections include the bilingual Chinese/English Canyon in the Body, as well as those in Russian, Thai, and Spanish.   Her awards include the Poetry and People International Poetry Prize, the Yuan Kejia Poetry Award, the Chinese Media Literature Prize, and the Su Shi Poetry Award. She has been named an honorary citizen of Chios and Oinousses, Homer's Greek birthplace.  

Quan Zi was born in 1973 and is a contemporary Chinese poet who has received widespread honors. His poetry anthologies include Miscellaneous Poems, Empty Honey, The Green Mountains Have Never Been So Full, Mountains and Water in the Human Realm, and others. He is also the author of Thoughts on Poetry, books of poetry and conversations including From Two Worlds, Loving One Woman and Rain Falls On the Wall and the Moon Moves and others. He was a recipient of the first Ai Qing Poetry Award, the Liu Lian Poetry Award, the Su Shi Poetry Prize, and others.

Huang Jiyun, born in 1961, is a Chinese poet and promoter of contemporary Chinese poetry. He is the founder of the prominent poetry journal Poetry Construction. His poetry collections include Selected Short Poems of Huang Jiyun, Famous Writings of the Years, The Pet Era, and more.

Wang Jiaxin is a Chinese poet, essayist, and translator and has published more than forty books.His work has had an important influence on Chinese poetry and has been translated into many languages. His collection of poems in English is Darkening Mirror (2017), translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell, with a foreword by Robert Hass. His poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, American Poets, The Kenyon Review,Washington Square Review and The Hopkins Review. and he has been a poet-in-residence at the Dutch Literary Foundation (2022) . He has won many domestic and international awards.  Wang Jiaxin was born in Hubei province and graduated from Wuhan University.He is a professor at Renmin University of China for years.His second collection of poems in English, At the Same Time, translated by John Balcom, has been published by Arrowsmith Press in the fall of 2025 and was longlisted for the 2006 PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize.

Xinyue Huang is a recent MFA graduate in Poetry from NYU whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Huang is the recipient of the 2025 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize.

Zhang Shuguang (b. 1956) has been a leading voice in Chinese poetry since the 1990s. He resides in Harbin, a city in northern China. He has published many volumes of collected poetry, including The Clown’s Checkered Coat, Afternoon Snowfall, The Poetry of Zhang Shuguang, Haunted House, Watching Films and Other Things, and The Cinema and the Century’s Landscape. He has won several poetry prizes, including the Poetry Construction First Prize, Poetry and People International Prize,  Poetry Harvest Annual Poetry Prize, and the Su Shi Poetry Prize. He is also a translator. He has translated Czesław Miłosz’s work into Chinese. His early poetry used narrative to excavate our interior realities, imbuing the details of everyday life with a sense of modernity.