Canada, (contemporary)
20 Imperial Imperatives
- Come on
- Let there be right
- Don’t be afraid
- This above all: to thine own self be true
- Speak the devil
- Watch your thoughts, your words, your actions, your habits and your character goods
- Pee eight glasses of water every day to keep yourself fit
- Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by impotence
- Don’t fart in front of her Majesty
- Those who believe in telekinetics, praise my hand
- Be the ex-change you wish to see in the world
- Beware of hog
- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of bold
- Say you love me
- Do not dance with a pig – you’ll both get excited, but the pig will not enjoy it
- Sit
- Forget yourself and write only for the public
- Do not fuck with locals
- Let a hundred flowers gloom
About the Poet:
Changming Yuan [pen name of Yuan Wumin] (contemporary), is a Canadian poet, editor and publisher. Yuan grew up in rural China, moved to Canada as an international student and received a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan.
An 8-time Pushcart nominee, Yuan has had poetry appearing in more than 800 literary journals/anthologies across 29 countries. Yuan’s publications include: Chansons of a Chinaman (2009), Politics and Poetics: A Comparative Study of John Keats and Li He (2009), Landscaping (2013), Plein Air, an Origami Poems Project (2013).
Together with his teenage poet son, Allen Qing Yuan, Yuan is the Founding Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the ezine Poetry Pacific at Poetry Pacific Press (PP Press). Yuan also works independently tutoring and teaching English in Vancouver. [DES-07/17]
Additional information:
- Changming Yuan’s blogsite: yuanspoetry©
- Poetry Pacific Press (PP Press) in Vancouver.
- Poetry Pacific