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changmingyuan
Yuan Changming grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age 19, and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 3 for fiction, 16 solo poetry chapbooks as well as appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline among 2,129 other literary outlets across 51 countries. A poetry judge for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022; his debut (hybrid) novel DETACHING, 'silver romance' THE TUNER & short story collection FLASHBACKS are all avaiable at Amazon, his duology EDENNING due out in 2026.
Haze of Ming (inspired by Qi Hong [ē„ēŗ¢])
Intimacy
27 April 2026
Haze of Ming (inspired by Qi Hong [ē„ēŗ¢])
In an age when every digital camara has a beauty filter, it is more difficult than ever, if not entirely possible, to see the 'true face' of a human being.
The purchase of fish maw in zhuhai
Short story
1 March 2025
The purchase of fish maw in zhuhai
Hua was thinking about buying a big softshell turtle to cook for her husband Ping when she spotted a seafood stand full of dried fish maw. Approaching the stall, she found another woman of her age talking with the vendor while making her careful selections from the basket. moon park…
Lovelines: a group of love poems
Poem
23 November 2024
Lovelines: a group of love poems
Like more than 150 others, these love pieces are inspired by and thus devoted to my long-lost but recently refound first love known as Qi Hong.
First English Class
Short story
30 May 2024
First English Class
Ming was over the moon when he began to attend senior high school in New Rivermouth, the county seat of Songzi. For him, this school transfer meant nothing less than a dream come true. After years of hardships as a foster child in Lotus Village, he was finally able not…
Mayuhe Revisited
Short story
1 February 2024
Mayuhe Revisited
On the morning of October 28th, my brother drove us to Mayuhe, the forest farm on the southern bank of the Yangtze River where Hua and I worked as zhiqing (educated youths) towards the end of the āCultural Revolution.ā Our purpose was to pay our tribute to the locality as…
New Yearās Gift
Short story
6 September 2023
New Yearās Gift
Ming never really liked his old man. He didnāt know exactly why. While everyone he hang around with had something to brag about their fathersā¦
Emotional Curiosity (2)
Short story
12 May 2023
Emotional Curiosity (2)
He doesnāt know how curiosity can kill a cat, but heās acutely aware how itās killing himself. Ever since she first asked him What do you like me about? when they fell in love again after theyād lost each other for nearly half a century, heās been haunted by this…
Heart Game
Short story
11 October 2022
Heart Game
One again, he has fallen in love with her. There are as many reasons known as those unknown to him; for example, she somehow looks even more attractive than when he first met her forty two years ago; her personality remains just as sunny despite all the hardships of life…
Again, for First Love: For Qi Hong
Poem
1 March 2021
Again, for First Love: For Qi Hong
You are sure that I have never really forgotten you. You Are sure about my teenage years. You know everything About āusā then. You are sure āusā is a little seed deeply Planted in the backyard of my heart when I de-parted
Cage & Bird
Poem
14 November 2019
Cage & Bird
Cage & Bird by Changming Yuan I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Kafka Wherever my mind flies, itās stillConfinedTightly to this world, this very cage ofSensory & imaginative cells In other words, I is the cage, whileThe whole universe am a bird
Morning Melody and other poems
Poem
24 December 2015
Morning Melody and other poems
Morning Melody and other poems by Changming Yuan [morning melody] You might have stayed up All night, clicking at every link To your daydream, searching For a soulmate in the cyberspace You might have enjoyed an early dose Of original sin between sleep and wake Before packing up all your…