{"id":4780,"date":"2020-04-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T03:01:25","slug":"elizabeth-briel-reads-xi-chuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4780","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Briel reads Xi Chuan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While the coronavirus is keeping most of us indoors, artist Elizabeth Briel has been reading poems and posting them to Instagram and Facebook. Here she is reading my translation of Xi Chuan’s new poem, “Ode to Facemasks” \u53e3\u7f69\u9882<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Briel reading Xi Chuan’s “Ode to Facemasks” \u53e3\u7f69\u9882<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Ode to Facemasks” will be published in the forthcoming “Masks” feature, edited by Tammy Ho \u4f55\u9e97\u660e, in the Hongkong-based literary journal Voice & Verse<\/a> \u8072\u97fb\u8a69\u520a <\/a>(edited by Chris Song \u5b8b\u5b50\u6c5f). Voice & Verse <\/em>is accepting submissions on the theme of Masks until May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> for the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the coronavirus is keeping most of us indoors, artist Elizabeth Briel has been reading poems and posting them to Instagram and Facebook. Here she is reading my translation of Xi Chuan’s new poem, “Ode to Facemasks” \u53e3\u7f69\u9882. “Ode to … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[2230,1025,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1f6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5161,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=5161","url_meta":{"origin":4780,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan’s Bloom & and Other Poems reviewed at Poetry Foundation","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Xi Chuan's newest, his second book in English, Bloom and Other Poems, has only been out for a matter of days, but already it's received its first review! 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