Newman Young Writers Award

Dear friends in Central Oklahoma. The Resonator Institute/Gallery (Main St.) will host a Solo exhibition of my work "Between Languages" during this month's "2nd Friday Norman Art Walk" (https://www.2ndfridaynorman.com). It will be chilly, but not as cold as next week! Details here: https://resonator-space.squarespace.com/calender

Come see the English Jueju Prize Ceremony tomorrow night at the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature celebration of Yan Lianke.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Newman Prize for Chinese Literature Award Ceremony. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Newman Prize for Chinese Literature Award Ceremony. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

"How to Write Classical Chinese Poetry in English" will be featured this week on Poetry Daily (www.poems.com)
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If today is National Haiku day, let tomorrow be National Jueju Day!
The jueju lies at the heart of Classical Chinese poetry, and yet comparatively few have written jueju in English. The first English jueju (following the form described below) was published by June Jordan in 1997. Since then, thousands have gone on to learn how to balance the meaning and sound of the English language so that it conforms to the patterns handed down by Chinese poets over millennia. To learn how to write the form, watch my jueju class (a series of six 12 minute mini-lectures) on youtube, and learn more about this poetic form’s astonishing history and its still resonant cosmological poetics.

Here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgpc7RuuQqg

Then, if you would like, send share your finished jueju here, or send it to me (at [email protected]), and I will add it to the other Newman Prize Jueju Competition entries (to be judged next March, 2021). Please do make sure to add your name and level of difficulty you are attempting. For more information about the competition and other learning/teaching resources (including a detail list of rules and gamified tools for learning the form) go to: http://www.ou.edu/cis/sponsored_programs/institute-for-us-china-issues/newman-prize-for-chinese-literature/young-writers-awards/english-jueju-teaching-and-learning-resources

Untitled Jueju
Tall pines/ moss hangs/ soft breeze blows
White blooms/ duck w**d/ clear stream flows
Raise head/ clouds pass/ am I here
Hang head/ mind clears/ no one knows

Writing Classical Chinese Poetry in English--Full Lecture In this full-length lecture, Professor Jonathan Stalling introduces the core concepts that have made Classical Chinese poetry a cultural treasure and human r...

Congratulations to Colby Baumann, Jennifer Sosa, Elizabeth Blazek, and Lindsay Jones, winners of this year's Newman Young Writers Awards! Their poetry was selected from over 450 entries, and we couldn't be more thrilled about the turnout this year from schools all over Oklahoma.

See their elegant poems in the press release here: http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/youngwriters.html

Newman Young Poets Award: 20 words = $500 Poetry Contest for Oklahoma High School Students Submission deadline: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 (2017 Flyer. Four winners will receive their $500 awards at the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature awards banquet at OU on March 3, 2017)

Join us at one of these upcoming events for the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature!

The next MAE reading is part of a rich constellation of events celebrating the Newman Laureate Wang Anyi. For our part, Taiwanese multimodal poet Ye Mimi will be reading in our series at MainSite Gallery (122 E. Main Street, Norman OK), at 7 p.m. on March 2. Here's a link to her work: http://movingpoems.com/poet/ye-mimi/) If you can't make our reading, attend at least one of the other events on the schedule.

There's one week left to submit your jueju poetry! Be sure to get your submissions in by Friday, February 24.

Email your jueju poetry--along with your name, school, category (elementary/high school/college etc.), and contact information--in a Word Doc sent to [email protected].

We can't wait to read your poems!

Take a look at how Kindergarten students at Madison elementary in Norman use images to start imagining their jueju poetry!

The deadline for the Newman Young Writers Award is February 24, and you can find lesson plans and class activities like this one here: http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/youngwriters.html Email us with any questions at [email protected].

Try your hand at composing classical Chinese poetry in English.

Newman Young Poets Award: 20 words = $500 Poetry Contest for Oklahoma High School Students Submission window for 2017: Sept. 1, 2016 to Feb. 24, 2017 ( Four winners will receive their $500 awards at the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature awards banquet at OU on March 3, 2017)

If you like word games, poetry, or both, try your hand at the Newman Young Writers Award, sponsored by the Institute for US-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma!

The Newman Young Writers Award gives out prizes of $500 to winning jueju poems written by students across Oklahoma. Check out the website for an introductory video, instructions for writing jueju poems, and materials for practicing writing: http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/youngwriters.html

Email us with your submissions and with any questions at [email protected].

Newman Young Poets Award: 20 words = $500 Poetry Contest for Oklahoma High School Students Submission window for 2017: Sept. 1, 2016 to Feb. 24, 2017 ( Four winners will receive their $500 awards at the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature awards banquet at OU on March 3, 2017)