Thank you to the Mississauga Arts Council for selecting our 2025 Peace and Harmony through Poetry and Music project as a MicroGrant Success. Special thanks to our sponsors—Nova Marketing Group, Triple J Canada, Sureway Press, CPAC—and Canadian poets Katherine L. Gordon and D.C. Reid for their generous support. Peace and Harmony through Poetry and Music (May–September 30, 2025) resulted in the creation of over 30 original works. More songs and videos can be viewed here.
In 2020, I led Poetry in Translation: East Meets West seminars, receiving excellent feedback from participants and audiences. In 2021, my bilingual anthology Mirrors and Windows, featuring 59 poets translated between Chinese and English, was published by Guernica Editions and selected by CBC as one of 45 Canadian poetry collections to watch. These initiatives demonstrated how poetry translation can foster meaningful cross-cultural connections.
Building on this experience, I launched the 2026 project Borderless: Translating Across Divides to Foster Dialogue and Harmony. This intercultural initiative brings together Chinese- and English-speaking poets, translators, and readers to explore how poetry can bridge linguistic and cultural divides. Through collaborative workshops, participants translate and discuss selected poems, gaining deeper understanding of each other’s languages, traditions, and perspectives. The project will culminate in a bilingual anthology celebrating poetry’s power to connect communities.
I have already received strong support from previous project sponsors, including poets DC Reid and Katherine L. Gordon, Chen Jie (President, Triple J Tax), and Zelko Odorcic (President, Nova Marketing Group Inc.). Leveraging my role as Ontario Representative for the League of Canadian Poets and my past collaborations, I have established a strong network of potential participants.
Since Mirrors and Windows, I have continued translating works by over forty Chinese and Canadian poets—including Armand Garnet Ruffo, Alice Major, Molly Peacock, Richard Greene, Micheline Maylor, Yvonne Blomer, Rayanne Haines, David Stones, Kyeren Regehr, Lorna Crozier, Kate Rogers, Bruce Hunter, Bänoo Zan, Yan Li, Yen Ai-Lin, Luofu, and Yang Lian， Yuan Fan, Wang Zi Liang—many of which have been published in renowned literary media. I plan to invite additional poets, particularly those based in Mississauga. Together, their poems will foster dialogue, share knowledge, and cultivate collective wisdom across cultures.
As this project is non-profit, I plan to apply for grants to support it, though funding is increasingly difficult to secure. Nevertheless, I aim to complete the project by the end of 2026.
More updates will unfold as the project develops.
BTW, I would also like to celebrate that our 2025 Peace and Harmony through Poetry and Music project has been selected as a MicroGrant Success. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making that project meaningful and memorable.
We thank our sponsors: Nova Marketing Group, Triple J Canada, Sureway Press, CPAC and Canadian poets Katherine L. Gordon and D.C. Reid.
Thanks to Howl show on CIUT 89.5FM: Host Valentino Assenza welcomes Anna Yin to talk about her book “Breaking Into Blossom” (Frontenac House 2025)
Thank Sholom Wargon for his great project of immigrants stories…These stories including Anna Yin’s are shown in Greater Toronto Area since its open ceremony Dec 18, 2025 and have showcased in various cities.
Anna’s new poem, “Dear Sheri-D Wilson,” has been accepted by the Literary Review of Canada, a renowned Canadian magazine.
In addition, her tanka and five haiku will be featured and read in an upcoming issue of Poetry Pea Journal.
Anna has been nominated for the 2025 Civic Awards of Recognition and will attend the award night on November 18, 2025.
This Thanksgiving day we want to thank Nova Marketing Group, Triple J Canada, Sureway Press, poets Katherine L. Gordon and D.C. Reid and Mississauga Arts Council for sponsoring Poetry and Music project. Although this project is completed, Anna Yin continues to write more lyrics. Here we share some of her new songs and news.
This Thanksgiving I wrote this lyrics to remember Jane Goodall.
Anna Yin made the video to summarize the Poetry and Music project with heartfelt thanks to all sponsors for making this possible: Nova Marketing Group, Triple J Canada, Sureway Press, poets Katherine L. Gordon and D.C. Reid, and above all, the Mississauga Arts Council with RAMA Gaming Centre through the Mississauga Charitable Gaming Association. #poetry #music #projects #peace #harmony
Many thanks to Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) for inviting Anna Yin to lead a haiku workshop. Here are a few haiku by Anna inspired by the art at PAMA. Check more….
Many thanks to Heidi Sander, Melanie Kindrachuk, and Louise Liu and Stratford Public Library for making Poetry for Health and Harmony event possible. Grateful to all the book and poetry supporters who helped celebrate Ontario’s Shakespeare town with such a wonderful festival!
Come and Celebrate: for Mississauga’s 50th Anniversary – Adapted from Anna Yin’s poem from the eBook: Polyphonic celebration for Mississauga’s 50th Anniversary – 2024. Click the image to listen to the song.
The Beauty of Friendship (adapted from Anna Yin’s poem in the Ebook: Polyphonic celebration for Mississauga’s 50th Anniversary – 2024 ) This poem is for the friendship of twin cities: Mississauga and Kariya) Click the image to listen to the song.
Liu Yang’s review of Anna Yin’s translation book What We Do Not Know was published in Cuba. (page 9-14)
