Portrait of Bei Ling

Bei Ling

Bei Ling is a poet and essayist, as well as the founder and editor of the exile literary journal Tendency. He was awarded the PEN-U.S. West Freedom of Writing Award in 2000, the same year he was arrested in China for publishing and printing a literary journal and was expelled to the United States. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, Chicago Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, AGNISouthern Indiana Review, and Manoa. (2001)

AGNI has published the following work:

The Face Also Has Bruised Dignity

Poetry by Bei Ling Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xi Chuan

The Sun Singers

Poetry by Bei Ling Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xi Chuan
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