My publisher’s wonderful marketing staff connected me with YA author, anthologist, and poet Emily Kristin Anderson, who invited me to participate in her National Poetry Month blog series. In my article, I start discussing how I translated the first poem I had ever memorized as a child (夜思 or “Night Thoughts” by Li Bai, one of China’s most famous poets who lived during the Tang Dynasty). Then I transition into how my early love of Chinese poetry influenced me while writing poems for Summoning the Phoenix.
Read Summoning Li Bai & see more of April Chu’s wonderful art!
Thank you, Emily, for including me in your celebration of National Poetry Month!
Childhood poetry
living in my memory
guides my artistry.