{"id":2894,"date":"2014-11-26T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2014-11-25T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T03:21:59","slug":"aawws-four-poems-for-the-umbrella-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2894","title":{"rendered":"AAWW’s Four Poems for the Umbrella Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo<\/a>The Asian American Writers’ Workshop <\/a>has published four poems on the Occupy Central Umbrella Movement by Hongkong poets Tang Siu Wa, Chung Kwok Keung, Dorothy Tse, and Liu Waitong, as translated by Nicolette Wong, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, and Amy K. Bell. Edited by Louise Law and introduced by Henry Wei Leung, here’s an excerpt (from Chung Kwok Keung, translated by Ho):<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s put silence to a coma in the dark of night
\nLet\u2019s allow our voice, clear and loud, to be heard at dawn
\nOccupy, so that it can be put back in place
\nSit down, and then stand up, one by one
\nWhen our names are called,
\nEach and every one of us, say: Here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop has published four poems on the Occupy Central Umbrella Movement by Hongkong poets Tang Siu Wa, Chung Kwok Keung, Dorothy Tse, and Liu Waitong, as translated by Nicolette Wong, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, and Amy K. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1496,1494,1226,1498,705,1140,1497,1495,1025,176,1493],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-KG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2929,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2929","url_meta":{"origin":2894,"position":0},"title":"The Umbrellas and the Tear Gas","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"CURAmag has posted \"The Umbrellas and the Tear Gas,\" a feature of poems from the Occupy Central movement, now cleared, put together and introduced by Louise Law, with Henry Wei Leung. 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