Cities have long served as poetic muses. Homer had his Ithaca, Whitman his Manhattan, Wordsworth his London, and Du Fu his Chang An. Our next Stories of Things speaker, poet and NYU professor, David Perry, has found poetic inspiration in our own Shanghai, specifically the Shanghai Subway system. Armed with his Shanghai Public Transportation Card, David's mission has been to write a poem for each of the (ever increasing!) Shanghai subway stations.
To explore each stop, the poet has used chance theory as laid out in the Chinese classic, Yi Jing (Book of Changes), to help determine his direction and the focus of his attention. Please join us on Sunday, October 25, from 4 to 6pm at the Sketch Yard Art Restaurant. Members: RMB 120; non-members: RMB 200. Includes light snacks and a drink. Excerpts from the poem will be sent to registered attendees before the event.
Convened by Robert Martin
Speakers
David Perry
Professor at NYU
David Perry currently splits time between Philadelphia and Shanghai, where he teaches in the NYU Shanghai Writing Program. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Range Finder and Expat Taxes, as well as two long-poem chapbooks, Knowledge Follows and New Years. He edits Seaweed Salad Editions, focusing on producing artists books and poetry in translation, including Shanghai-based poet Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway, which Perry translated and annotated. His current digital poetry and poetics project, n Lines & Changing, is a work of poetry in a continuous state of change derived from chance-derived algorithmic walks taken in the vicinity of randomly selected Shanghai Metro stations.
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