We also want to extend our congratulations on the publication of Don’s new poetry collection, “Starlight Tapestry,” with Anna Yin’s translations! Anna brought copies of the book to the Mitchell Poetry Festival in Ontario on June 17, 2023 and donated one to the library.
Congratulations to 19 Mississauga Artists who won MicroGrant for Spring 2023 projects (MAC)

Anna Yin will start her project in June 2023: Creating a reflective film to foster cultural values
Project that fuses poetry and public art in a collaborative film. She will team with Roy Marques, Sarah Hei and other artists/participants for this short film project. She thanks MAC, AGM, Triple J Canada, Kaideed Education and other sponsors!
This project will start in June teamed up with a core film team and plan to finish in Oct, 2023. During the filming process, Anna will invite the public to join us with activities (more will be released) to enrich connections with our city and our communities to further understand the role of public art in the history and cultural development of Mississauga. Currently we have received wonderful supports from local artists and sponsors (Anna’s sponsors from last year will continue their sponsorship).
It is a small low budge project. If any of you or your company would like to be involved with this project or sponsor it, please feel free to contact [email protected] Cheers. #project #film #publicart #sponsor
Anna Yin introducing LuoFu’s poems and poetry festival to Vancouver and then Canadian poets’ work to Taiwan
Epoch Poetry Quarterly (Taiwan) has more than 60 years history. Luo Fu was one of the founders and was a renown Chinese poet in the world. Anna has translated his poems in Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions 2021) Epoch Poetry Quarterly #215 published Anna Yin’s translations of poems by three Canadian poets: Liz Howard, Don Gutteridge, Armand Garnet Ruffo (in both original text and translations)


May’s featured poet: Don Gutteridge
Don Gutteridge is a Canadian author of 70 books: fiction, poetry and scholarly works, one of his poetry books was a finalist for Governor General’s Literary Awards in 1973. He taught at Western University in the Department of English Methods. He is now professor emeritus and lives in London, Ontario.
唐·古特里奇是加拿大作家,出版了70本书:小说、诗歌和学术作品,诗集1973年曾入围加拿大总督文学奖。唐·古特里奇在西安大略大学英语方法系任教多年。

Don’s poetry collection with Anna Yin’s Chinese translation will soon be published by Sureway Press. Congratulations! Thanks Albert Moritz 牧辛 & R. G. Moyles for blurbs!
More poems by Don with Anna Yin’s translations are in Epoch Poetry Quarterly, New World Poetry etc. We will showcase more. Stay tuned!
More events and poet in class in April
As always, in National Poetry Month there are many great ways to celebrate poetry. Here we share a few Anna Yin’s Poetry Alive at schools and other Poetry events. Please feel free to check more.




Mississauga Poetry Month 2023
This month the City of Mississauga is offering a variety of poetry contests, calls for submissions, workshops, poetry slam & more! Check out the full list of programs. All are free.

Upcoming April free poetry events
2023 April 26: Poetry for Joy and Harmony at Churchill Meadow Community Center (10:30am-12 pm)
2023 April 26: Online Haiku Workshop for Mississauga Library (7pm)
2023 April 22: Haiku workshop at UUCM Mississauga, in person
2023 April 12: Haiku Workshop for Mississauga Library (in person, Malton Library, 4-5 PM)
More publications for Poetry, Painting and Translation project
Anna Yin’s new poems on Live Encounters Poetry & Writing March 2023

Thank Mark Ulyseas! Poetry is truly healing! In April, Anna will have an event Poetry for Health and Harmony… She will share these poems as well! Check the March edition of Live Encounters Poetry & Writing