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Deep Breaths: A Chinese-English Bilingual Poetry Reading

November 21, 2019, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Location Schmitt Hall - 214
SponsorChinese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures Posted InCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences
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The Chinese Program invites everyone to meet Chinese poet Dr. Jiayan Mi and discuss with him his creative writing process. He will read poems from his latest collection Deep Breaths which will cleanse your soul.

Deep Breaths by Mi Jialu is a Chinese–English bilingual collection of poems written during his past thirty-seven years (1981-2018) and was published by Showwe Press in Taiwan (430 pp).

This Chinese-English bilingual edition was co-translated by Jennifer Feeley, Matt Turner, Lucas Klein, Michael M. Day and Feng Yi.

Dr. Mi is an Associate Professor in the departments of English and World Languages & Cultures at The College of New Jersey. He is the Director of the Chinese Program at the college.