© 2011 Don Yorty. All rights reserved.
… I took a trip through the Three Gorges in August of 2006 after teaching classes at the University of Wuhan for the month of July. I went with some of my teacher colleagues. Here is the first sonnet on … Continue reading
© 2010 Don Yorty. All rights reserved.
… In Wuhan, China, summer of 2008, one stormy evening after my poetry workshop, Richard, a young scientist majoring in Physics, offered to walk me back to the hotel sharing his umbrella in the pouring rain as we made it … Continue reading
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… Beautiful thoughts aren’t always pretty and neither are beautiful words. At the poetry workshop I did at Wuhan University in China, I’d show two short poems by Alice Notley that were simple to understand. Here is one of them. … Continue reading
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… Today it started to rain and thunder and then it stopped. After class, puddles were everywhere as I walked to my favorite restaurant. It was closed. For good. The man keeping guard in the gutted space spoke Chinese of … Continue reading