In partnership with Annapolis Home Magazine, St. John’s College presents Poets in the Conversation Room hosted by acclaimed author, poet, playwright, and tenth Maryland Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri. Listen to poetry readings from award-winning poets and have a chance to ask questions during a 20-minute question period afterwards.

Andrew W. F. Wong, born in Shanghai in 1943 is a former Chinese political activist and translator of ancient Chinese poems into English verse, using the quatrain form. He was the last President of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council before sovereignty reverted in 1997 to China. Now retired and living in Washington, D.C., in 2021 he published an unprecedented translation of original poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), 60 Chinese Poems in English Verse.

Stella Zhu (A16) has been a tutor at St. John’s College since 2022. She is a translator of poetry and literature, and reviews Chinese books in translation. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.

Further reading:
60 Chinese Poems in English Verse 
https://www.yesasia.com/us/1105397519-0-0-0-en/info.html
https://bit.ly/4fI2kGH (Amazon Kindle version)

Classical Chinese Poems in English
https://chinesepoemsinenglish.blogspot.com