Ming Di

Ming Di is a Chinese poet living in the US with six books of poetry published in China. Co-founder and editor of PoetryEastWest, she translates both ways and has published four books of poetry in Chinese translation, including Observations, by Marianne Moore (2018). She has edited and co-translated New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (2013) and New Poetry from China, 1917–2017 (2019). She received the 2021 Lishan Poetry Award (for translation) in China.

Two Poems

By Yu Xiuhua

July 2018
Yu Xiuhua

Still from Still Tomorrow (2016), dir. Jian Fan, produced by Youku Tudou, Inc. Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You To sleep with you or to be slept, what’s the difference if there’s any...
Two Poems

By Liu Xia

January 2018
Liu Xia

above Liu Xia prepared her goodbye for her husband, Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017), in a poem and a series of photographs titled The Lonely Planets (courtesy of the author). For m...
A Poem from China in Memory of Liu Xiaobo

September 6, 2017 | Liu Xia

Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang Ya Translator’s note: This photo of Liu Xiaobo swimming surfaced on the Internet after the sea burial in Dalian, China. Those of us who were hear...
Two Poems

By Ming Di

May 2016
Ming Di

What One Leaf Tells In the wind, questions to heaven bang the white poplar. Answers fracture – a thousand white leaves. A thousand blameless mouths. A thousand. Ten thousand colorless excuses; I pi...