Yuan Changming
Trade Deficit: Chinese Exported into English
John does not deserve that award.
You can you up, no can no BB!
Joe was stopped by the police near the school zone.
No zuo no die.
Jill spent fifty thousand on a pair of shoes.
Her father is a tuhao from Beijing.
Jack’s bitcoin has risen by more than 1500 % this year.
Wow, the digital gold is so gelivable!
Jeff feels full of niubility and brags too much.
That only reflects his shability.
Jennifer enjoys playing zhuangbility.
She is nobody but a sexretary.
Jenny was lost among people mountain people sea.
I don’t blame her in such a gunvernment celebration.
Yuan Changming is the author of the poetry collection Chansons of a Chinaman (Leaf Garden Press, 2009), and the critical monograph Politics and Poetics: A Comparative Study of John Keats and Li He (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010). His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Literary Review of Canada, London Magazine, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Salzburg Review, SAND, Taj Mahal Review, The Threepenny Review, Two Thirds North, and many other journals, as well as in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009 (Tightrope Books, 2009), edited by A. F. Moritz and Molly Peacock, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 (Tightrope Books, 2012), edited by Carmine Starnino and Molly Peacock. Born and raised in Songzi, China, Yuan holds a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, and lives in Vancouver, BC, where he edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan.
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