Katonah Poetry Series: Wang Jiaxin

Wang Jiaxin is an eminent Chinese poet, essayist, and translator and has published more than forty books. His collection of poems in English is Darkening Mirror (Tebot Bach, 2017), translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell, with a foreword by former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass. His poems have been published in The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review, and he has been a poet-in-residence at the Dutch Literary Foundation (Amsterdam, 2022) and at the the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (2013). An esteemed translator of Yeats, Mandelstam, and especially of Paul Celan, he has also translated books by American poets Jean Valentine and Ilya Kaminsky into Chinese. He has won many domestic and international awards, including the inaugural Ai Qing Poetry Award (2023).

Wang Jiaxin was a professor at Renmin University of China for years—he now splits his time between New York and Beijing—he has led a translation workshop at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, lectured and read at Walt Whitman’s birthplace, and a number of American and Canadian Universities. 

This in-person reading at the Katonah Village Library does not require registration. Recommended donation ($15) can be paid at the door. For more information, visit the Katonah Poetry Series website: https://katonahpoetry.com/