Poetry in the Moment

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

Showing posts with label colonialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colonialism. Show all posts
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Selected Haibun: The Promised Land

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What will you do if they uproot your trees? What will I do? Only plant them again. What will you do if they bulldoze your houses? Wha...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

A Tanka about the Door of No Return

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night after night shackled slaves screamed in distress Barack Obama stands at the Door of No Return Skylark, 2:1, Summer 2014 Note: The...
Monday, May 12, 2014

The Promised Land

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What will you do if they uproot your trees? What will I do? Only plant them again. What will you do if they bulldoze your houses? Wha...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Eagle Feather Tanka

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for Idle No More activists the woman with an eagle feather sitting alone before the armed police ... sparrows in flight Bright Stars,...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing, XIX

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the 19th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences a Mohawk youth and an old Canadian shout at each other... we're here becau...
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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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