Poetry in the Moment

Blog Archive of Chen-ou Liu’s Published Poems: If no one reads my poetry, Death will be the Reviewer.

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Monday, November 12, 2018

Selected Tanka Sequence: Happy Families Are All Alike

she and I sit across the table in the morning bearing the silence of another new year separated and yet living quietly under the same roof w...

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Selected Tanka Sequence: The Same Old Story

first sunlight after Valentine's Day her heart beating against mine in a cheap motel room her departing words each star has its o...

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Selected Tanka Sequence: The Portrait of an Attic Poet

I yell out I'll stay drunk on writing her silent tongue like a scissor cutting my words to shreds rain pelting the windows of thi...

Friday, May 20, 2016

Selected Tanka Sequence: Tomorrow, When Will You Appear?

English Original as silent and firm as the rocks I pine for you ... the sun sets but not my shadow in the glow of sunset the shadow...

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Selected Tanka Sequence: A Year Gone with the Wind

I gaze with my shadow at the spring moon that used to perch on our shared dream I dust our photos taken years ago wondering if there's a...

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About the Poet

Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐: Born in Taipei,Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor,and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award.In 2002,he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax,a suburb of Toronto. Featured in New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, and listed as one of the top ten haiku poets for 2011(Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011),Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Contest). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 170 awards,including First Prize Co-Winner, 7th and 8th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012; Tanka First and Third Places, 2011 San Francisco International Competition; Grand Prix, 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest and First Prize Co-Winner, 2010 Haiku International Association Haiku Contest.

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