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Mother Tongue

By Olajide A. Omojarabi

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Poetry by Subhashini Kaligotla

Girls on the Playground

By Ruth Madievsky

Things to Answer For

By Ruxandra Guidi

Wang Wei

The eighth-century poet and landscape painter Wang Wei is considered China’s first great Zen poet, having written poems expressing the Buddhist views of the scholar-official class. As a painter, Wang Wei is credited with first conveying the inner experience of a setting; as a poet, he is revered for his concise, natural scenes utilizing spare images. While none of his paintings have survived the centuries, at least four hundred of his poems can be read today.
Poetry

Bamboo Grove and A Place Named for Deer

Wang Wei, translated from the Chinese by Billy Merrell January 15, 2012
Strum a song I can whistle to—
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