{"id":3099,"date":"2015-03-27T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T01:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T02:20:16","slug":"video-of-birds-of-metal-in-flight-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Video of Birds of Metal in Flight Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weaicolumbia.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/04\/february-25-event-birds-of-metal-in-flight-an-evening-of-poetry-with-55-photos-and-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?attachment_id=3100\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?fit=960%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Xi Chuan Bernstein Phoenix\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;collage by Tara Coleman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?fit=584%2C584&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3100 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?resize=584%2C584&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"collage by Tara Coleman\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Xi-Chuan-Bernstein-Phoenix.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Readings by Marilyn Nelson, Bei Dao <em>\u5317\u5c9b<\/em>,\u00a0Afaa Weaver, Zhai Yongming <em>\u7fdf\u6c38\u660e<\/em>, Pierre\u00a0Joris, Xi Chuan <em>\u897f\u5ddd<\/em>, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Zhou Zan <em>\u5468\u74d2<\/em>, Charles Bernstein, and Ouyang Jianghe <em>\u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3<\/em>, followed by remarks from Xu Bing <span class=\"st\"><em>\u5f90\u51b0<\/em>, introduced by Lydia Liu <em>\u5218\u79be<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QzIw4hiZCsA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For Xi Chuan reading my translation of &#8220;Bloom&#8221; \u5f00\u82b1, jump to 49:21.<\/p>\n<p>For pictures and more information on the reading, click <a href=\"https:\/\/weaicolumbia.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/04\/february-25-event-birds-of-metal-in-flight-an-evening-of-poetry-with-55-photos-and-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For recordings of the readings, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/writing.upenn.edu\/pennsound\/x\/WEAI-Columbia.php\" target=\"_blank\">PennSound<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings by Marilyn Nelson, Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b,\u00a0Afaa Weaver, Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e, Pierre\u00a0Joris, Xi Chuan \u897f\u5ddd, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Zhou Zan \u5468\u74d2, Charles Bernstein, and Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, followed by remarks from Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0, introduced by Lydia Liu \u5218\u79be. &nbsp; For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3099\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,31,9,11,7],"tags":[727,50,27,90,1567,1565,236,1566,1654,1374,51,22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-NZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3080,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3080","url_meta":{"origin":3099,"position":0},"title":"Birds of Metal in Flight","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5+5 Readings by Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b \u2022\u00a0Charles Bernstein\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Pierre\u00a0Joris\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Marilyn Nelson\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 Afaa Weaver\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Xi Chuan \u897f\u5ddd \u2022\u00a0Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e \u2022\u00a0Zhou Zan \u5468\u74d2 with remarks from Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Reception to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stjohndivine.org\/uploads\/pages\/images\/Phoenix.Frm_Internet_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stjohndivine.org\/uploads\/pages\/images\/Phoenix.Frm_Internet_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stjohndivine.org\/uploads\/pages\/images\/Phoenix.Frm_Internet_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3105,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3105","url_meta":{"origin":3099,"position":1},"title":"Sound &#038; Image: Chinese Poets in Conversation","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the \"Birds of Metal in Flight\" event, Columbia University hosted a panel discussion with Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b, Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, Xi Chuan \u897f\u5ddd, Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e, Zhou Zan \u5468\u74d2, and Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0, as moderated by Lydia Liu \u5218\u79be and John Rajchman and introduced by Eugenia Lean,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMGP0652","src":"https:\/\/weaicolumbia.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/imgp0652.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":512,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=512","url_meta":{"origin":3099,"position":2},"title":"India-China Writers Dialogues","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Xi Chuan will be traveling to Mumbai soon for the India-China Writers Dialogues. 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