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Mike Yuan,also known as Yuan Zhengming in Chinese, is a 5-time Pushcart nominee and author of two poetry collections. Growing up in a remote and impoverished village in central China, Mike received his post-secondary education in Shanghai and Tianjin, worked as a college lecturer and published several monographs in addition to many journal articles before moving to Canada as an international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Mike currently lives and works as a property manager in Vancouver. Since mid-2005, Mike Yuan has had poetry appear in more than 700 literary magazines and anthologies across 27 countries. | ![]() |
Published Poems
- Househunting
- Ready for Retirement
- Migration of the Mind
- Searching
- The Tree and the Marble
- The Wild Goose’s Will
- Hiking
- Outset
- Picking Cherries
- Since That Summer
- The Colored Balloon
- Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan
- Nailing
- Languaculture
- My Ink
- Soulmating
- At the Kitslano Beach
- Umbrella
- Key and Knife (Two Haiku)
- In the Forest of Life
- Awakening
- Canadian Winter
- Global Warning
- The Cup of Life
- Life of Paradoxes
- The Fraser River
- Money, for a Decent Human Life without You
- Matrimony
- A Domestic Dialogue
- Mid-Autumn Moon
- East Idioms (1): A Fable
- The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem

