Marilyn Chin is an award-winning writer and her works have become Asian American classics and are taught all over the world. She is an author of five books of poems and a book of fiction. Her most recent book is A Portrait of the Shelf as Nation: New and Selected Poems. She has won numerous awards, including the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, the United States Artist Foundation Award, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and others. She is featured in major anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry. She serves as Professor Emerita of San Diego State University and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

“Urban Love Poem” & Class Materials

Workshop Outline

Workshop Slides

Writing Prompt

Cheng Tim Tim currently teaches at HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Offing, SAND Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, among others. She is one of the co-founding editors of EDGE: HKBU Creative Journal. She translates interviews and news about Hong Kong, writes lyrics for bands and plays the bass guitar at leisure. She believes in words that heal and provoke.

“Kowloon City State of Mind”

Canadian poet Akin Jeje lives in Hong Kong. Jeje's works have been published and featured in Canada, the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong. His first full-length poetry collection, Smoked Pearl: Poems of Hong Kong and Beyond was published by Proverse Hong Kong in 2010. Jeje's most recent publication, “Too Long” is in Hong Kong’s Voice and Verse issue #54-55 (July to October 2020). He is working on another full-length poetry collection entitled write about here. Jeje is a previous MC of the Hong Kong English language poetry collective Peel Street Poetry, and one of its three directors. Jeje is also a regular contributor to Voice and Verse Magazine (Hong Kong) and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and a member of PEN Hong Kong.

“The City”

Collier Nogues’ poetry collections are The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground (Drunken Boat, 2015) and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). Her work has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Lingnan University, and her poems have appeared in The Volta, At Length, Jubilat, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, as the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is a PhD Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, where she studies experimental US anti-war poetry. She also edits poetry for Juked.

“Rain Scene”

Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jennifer Wong is the author of three collections including the latest 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020) which has been named the Wild Card Choice by Poetry Book Society, and Goldfish (Chameleon Press 2013), for which she received the Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. She has a PhD in creative writing from Oxford Brookes University, where she teaches as Associate Lecturer.

“Home Is”

Marco Yan is a Hong Kong-based poet, whose works have recently appeared in the Scores, Third Coast, Cordite Poetry Review, and other places. He has received his MFA degrees from the University of Hong Kong and New York University. He can be found at www.marcoyan.com.

“Ardent Before We Go”