Ming Di

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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 and two anthologies. She received the 2021 Lishan Poetry Award (for translation) in China.

  • A painting of a woman in Renaissance-era dress

    A Glance

    By Zheng Min
    May 2022
    Zheng Min
    Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn, Young Woman at an Open Half-Door (1645), oil on canvas, 102.5 x 85.1 cm, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago / CC0 Pub…
  • A photograph of downward rolling hills, planted in rice. A cluster of rice heads peek up from the bottom of the frame in the foreground

    Golden Rice Sheaves

    By Zheng Min
    Autumn 2021
    Zheng Min
    Photo by Artur Kraft / Unsplash Golden rice stands in sheaves in the freshly cut autumn field. I think of many exhausted mothers and see beautiful, wrinkled faces along the road at dusk.…
  • A photograph of Yu Xiuhua writing on a laptop

    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 YouTo sleep with you or to be slept, what’s the difference if there’s any?Tw…
  • A black and white photo of a ball of aluminum foil, shrouded in darkness, except for a strip of focused light on its right side.

    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…
  • Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang Ya

    A Poem from China in Memory of Liu Xiaobo

    September 6, 2017 Liu Xia
    Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang YaTranslator’s note: This photo of Liu Xiaobo swimming surfaced on the Internet after the sea burial in Dalian, China. Those of us who were heartb…
  • What One Leaf Tells

    Two Poems

    By Ming Di
    May 2016
    Ming Di
    What One Leaf TellsIn 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 pick…