december updates: yuan's lit endeavors

1. on 29 november, i got an email from the editor of the Big Windows Review, a new us-based online magazine, informing me that they had just nominated my poem (pasted below) for the 2017 pushcart prize. basically a wordplay, the poem combines two anagraming efforts together to satirise the way us politics as well as its most basic socio-political constructs have been degraded as if in a ridiculous anagram.

Yuan Changming: “American Dream Anagrammed”

Posted on September 29, 2017

this is the tenth time i have been nominated for the prize. though i do not expect to get it by any chance, i feel delighted.

2. got 12 poetry acceptances in november.

3. after creating my facebook page Happy Yangsheng in late octorber at https://www.facebook.com/happyyangsheng/?pnref=lhc, the facebook blocks some of the basic features from time to time, and for the past few weeks, i have been disabled to find and send new 'invites.' as a result, the community has been growing very slowly. deeply frustrated with such rude and unreasonable restrictions, i created on the canadian remembrance day a blog site 'Happy Yangsheng' at happyyangsheng.blogspot.ca, hoping to expand the community. although readerly interest is minimum, i am committed to follow my posting schedule. in so doing, i wish to help someone somehow somewhere with my knowledge and experience. no matter what result this project might lead to, i consider this to be my humble way to contribute to society.