Modern Poetry Collection Event: Reading by Poet Chen Yihai
Poet Chen Yihai from Yancheng Teachers University (China) will read from his own work with KSC Advanced Poetry Workshop Students in English and Mandarin. The reading will be held in the Archives Classroom, Room 132, Mason Library.
The event is co-sponsored by the Monadnock Pastoral Poets and KSC Modern Poetry Collection.
Yihai Chen, PhD, a professor from the School of Chinese Language and Literature in Yancheng Teachers University, was born in Jiangsu Province. He began poetry writing in early 1980’s, and has published more than 600 poems home and abroad.
He was a visiting scholar to the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies in the University of Warwick in 2005, during which he won the second prize in the 40th anniversary poetry competition of this University. In 2006, he won the first prize in an English poetry competition sponsored by the British Consulate. The first collection of his English poetry Song of Simone & Seven Sad Songs was published by Heaventree Press in 2005.
He is the translator of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Charles Dickens’ The Tale of Two Cities, as well as many foreign poems.
He is also a scholar of comparative culture and translation studies.
To request accommodations for a disability, please contact the coordinator at least two weeks prior to the event.
