FeatureFriday: Interview with Yuan

(another brief) interview with Editor Grace Black of Ink in Thirds at::

https://inkinthirds.com/2016/09/16/featurefriday-changming-yuan/

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 BY GRACE BLACK
#FeatureFriday – Changming Yuan

Take a break, get inspired, and learn a bit more about Changming Yuan. Here is our twist on an interview.



A quote that inspires you:

The meaning of life, if any at all, is to create a meaning for it. -Changming Yuan

Your writing process described as a song:
My writing process is like one of hatching birds: it takes the right temperature and the right time. Most important, if the egg is not right, it can never become a bird.


You’re a writer so tell us with your words why you write. But please don’t bore us:

I write; therefore, I am.

For me, writing is the most natural and, therefore, most enjoyable thing to do. I never care about any literary theory or trend; nor does any author have a particular influence on me; nor do I even care about readerly interest. While the most boring and even hateful thing to do about writing is to make submissions or try to get my poems published, literary reputation is just a matter of luck in most cases.

What is a recent story or poem you’ve had published elsewhere that we should read?

Drafted in my high school friend Li Weigang’s extra apartment in Beijing, “After HyunJung Passed Her Prenatal Screening Test” is the poem I have most recently published (in a new online magazine) Raising Mothers.  As its title clearly suggests, the piece was composed as a future gift to my first grandchild Kate, to be born on 11 November 2016, Canada’s Remembrance Day. I wrote this poem, as in the cases of all other pieces that I have ever written (and published) in English or Chinese, simply because I could not help yielding to my urge to create a meaning for a particular experience, be it a thought or sensation.

Website: http://poetrypacific.blogspot.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/poetry.pacific
Twitter: @changmingyuan