Yuan's Lit Endeavors Updated -8 Jul'23

 1/ from january to june 2023, got 55 poetry/fiction acceptances. those that have accepted my work for the first time include LIT, Shenendoah, Cicada & Singapore Unbound ;

2/ in jan, Sound of Poetry, a radio station based in Tacoma near Seattle, had a telephone interview with me at https://radiotacoma.org/sound-poetry-archive-2023/ ;

3/ recently, Shennendoah had a telephone interview with me at https://shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/a-cross-cultural-understanding-david-interviews-yuan-changming/; 

4/ on may 5, successfully released the 2023 edition of Poetry Pacific at http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/ ; for more exposure, we reverted to our old operational model - website publication only;

5/ in may, published the english version of a poetry collection titled My Secret Lover, You by Israeli poet Lali Michaeli at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1777900786

6/ in june, published the english version of a poetry collection titled Bronze by Yang Jijun, a chinese poet at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1777900794

7/ between 13 and 28 may, finished drafting 11 flash fictions, among which 'initial contact' and 'cat karma' have been accepted for publication on line;

8/ my 16th poetry collection Yellow Comedy is due out this month via Four Feathers Press; and my 17th Free Sonnets is to be released by Dark Onus Press in september;

9/ from jun 2022 to april 2023, i kept revising my150,000-word-long triology TOWARDs, which i have submitted to publishers without an agent; hope it will find a suitable home;

got covid-19 on feb 21 while i was alone at my basement home, and the symptons lingered for a couple of months before i 'fully' recovered. was afraid i could not make it, for i still have so much to do, esp. so much to write about...

i write; therefore, i am.