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Yuan Changming (Chinese:袁昌明, also known as Changming Yuan, b. 1957 Songzi, Hubei, China) is a Chinese-Canadian poetry author.

Background

Yuan grew up in a village. After graduating from high school in 1974, he spent more than two years on a forest farm as a ‘re-educated youth’. He began to learn the English alphabet at age nineteen when he was sent to Shanghai Jiaotong University as an ESL major. After obtaining his first MA from Tianjin Normal University, he worked as an English lecturer and administrator at Tianjin Institute of Foreign Trade (now part of Nankai University) for about six years. Between 1989 and 1996, he attended the University of Saskatchewan, where he received his MA and PhD in English. While pursuing his graduate studies, Yuan co-founded and edited Saskatchewan Chinese Newspaper (《莎省华报》). In 1992, he moved to Vancouver, where he has been living as a student, tutor, translator, editor and publisher. During a tour to Banff in 2004, he started to write poetry in English; his poems have appeared in more than 1,400 literary outlets across 42 countries, which include Best of the Best Canadian Poetry: Tenth Anniversary Edition, BestNewPoemsOnline, Cincinnati Review, LiNQ, London Magazine, Lunch Poem at SFU and Threepenny Review. Also, he has won ten Pushcart and three Best of the Net nominations. He is the founding editor of Poetry Pacific and the host of Happy Yangsheng.

Books (in English): 1.Politics and Poetics: A Comparative Study of John Keats and Li He (Dissertation/Monograph). Berlin: LAP, 2009. 2.Chansons of a Chinaman. Murfreesboro: Leaf Garden Press, 2009. 3.Landscaping. San Jacinto, San Jacinto: Flutter Press, 2013. 4.Mindscaping (e.chapbook). Halifax: Fowlpox Press, 2014. 5.Origin of Letters (e.chapbook). Chicago: Beard of Bees Press, 2015. 6.Kinship: For Yuan Hongqi & Liu Yu. Seattle: Goldfish Press, May 2015. 7.Create Abundance (Translator). Vancouver: Poetry Pacific Press, 2015. 8.Wisdom for Abundance (Translator). Vancouver: Poetry Pacific Press, 2015. 9.Wordscaping (e. chapbook). Halifax: Fowlpox Press, 2016. 10.Dark Phantasms. San Jacinto: Flutter Press, 2017.

Books (in Chinese): 1.The Comparative Structure of English (《英语比较结构》; monograph). Beijing: Foreign Trade Education Press (对外贸易教育出版社), 1988. 2.The Substitution of English (《英语替代用法》; monograph). Beijing: Foreign Trade Education Press (对外贸易教育出版社), 1990. 3.Negotiate Anywhere (《谈生意的诀窍》; co-translator). Beijing: Masses Press (群众出版社), 1993. 4.A New Chinese-English Dictionary of International Business and Economics (《最新汉英对外经贸词典》; deputy chief compiler). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (外研社), 1993.

Selected Interviews: 1. PANK http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/interviews/the-lightning-room-with-changming-yuan/ 2. World Poetry Cafe Radio Show(CFRO100.5FM) htttp://worldpoetry.ca/?p=7447