My Zanzibar Revolution
An Excerpt from My Zanziber Revolution, a memoir “Once on Zanzibar, I quickly formed a feeling of familiarity with the place and the...
Celebrate difference!
Imagine a garden with only one kind of flower. Phlox here, phlox there, phlox in every bed, white phlox everywhere you look. Boring,...
Aphorisms by Mu Xin
I am not a cow, but already a steak. I am not pugnacious, I only like to win. At any examinations, I feel humiliated. Suffer secretly,...
Gentle surf lapping the beach
Just returned from the first visit of the year to the seaside. Temps in the 40s and strong sunlight seem by contrast to these last months...
Alfred Corn's Blog
The late James Laughlin was devoted to poetry as few are. He sought out the person he most admired to ask for advice. Pound read JL's...
From the Desk of Joanne Wang
In 1993, Toming Jun Liu, professor of English at California State University, L.A. interviewed Mu Xin when Mu Xin lived in New York. Here...