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Weijia Pan is a Chinese poet and translator. In 2023, his debut poetry collection, Motherlands, was selected by Louise Glück for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and subsequently published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. A graduate of the University of Houston MFA program, Pan is a 2024–26 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Early life
[edit]Pan grew up in Shanghai and Nanjing in China.[1] He later attended University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature.[2]
Career
[edit]Pan's poems have been published in AGNI, Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Palette Poetry, Poetry Daily, and others.[3][4][5][6]
In 2022, Pan's poem, "First Time to a Bathhouse", was a finalist for the Lorraine Williams Poetry Prize hosted by Georgia Review.[7]
In 2023, during his third year at the University of Houston MFA program, Pan won the Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry.[2] The same year, he won the Form and Form-Breaking Poetry Contest with his poem, "Five Stretched Sapphics", which was selected by Diane Seuss.[8]
In 2024, Pan's debut poetry collection, Motherlands, was published by Milkweed Editions after its selection for the Max Rivto Poetry Prize by Louise Glück in 2023.[9] It is believed to be the last manuscript that Glück selected and edited prior to her death later that year.[1] On September 5, 2024, Pan celebrated the launch of his debut with Chen Chen at Poets House.[10] Publishers Weekly called Pan's debut "a surprising and striking collection."[11]
Pan is a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University in the 2024–26 cohort.[12] Pan is working on a second collection of poetry, a collected volume of poems by Chinese poet Huang Jiyun, and a global anthology of poems about the COVID-19 pandemic co-edited with other translators at the University of Houston.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Eastler, Sara Lynn (2024-09-27). "The "Power of Poetry in Commemorating Personal and Historical Sorrows in Ways Historians Cannot": Poet Weijia Pan on "Motherlands"". Southern Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- 1 2 "2023 Inprint Prize Winners Reading". Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Pan, Weijia (2024-05-20). "Writing When the World's a Mess". Cincinnati Review. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Pan, Weijia (2023-10-12). "Étude en douze exercices, S.136". New Ohio Review. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Pan, Weijia (3 July 2023). "On the Railways: A Little Song". Palette Poetry. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Weijia Pan (July 18, 2023). "First Time to a Bathhouse". Poetry Daily. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Pan, Weijia (2022-12-08). "First Time to a Bathhouse [2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Featured Finalist] - The Georgia Review". Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Pan, Weijia (2023-09-28). "Five Stretched Sapphics". Cleaver Magazine. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ "Weijia Pan wins 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize". milkweed.org. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ "Motherlands: In-Person Book Launch for Weijia Pan". Poets House. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ "Motherlands by Weijia Pan". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ↑ "2024-2026 Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-11-08.