Celebrate Asian Heritage Month with this free event: East Meets West: Explore Haiku with Anna Yin, write for Mother’s Day & for Mother Earth
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Date: Friday, May 01, 2026
Time: 2:00pm–3:00pm
Mount Pleasant Branch of Toronto Public Library
Anna Yin will visit Victoria, BC for a poetry reading and a Poet Laureate Podcast interview with Kyeren Regehr. Thanks to the Writers’ Union of Canada, Planet Earth Poetry, Russell Books, and Queen’s Quarterly for their generous support and sponsorship.
The Poet Laureate Podcast
Also thanks to World Poetry Café for scheduling an interview with Anna Yin on April 14 2026. It will be online on April 16, 2026.
Check the whole project: Borderless: Translating Across Divides to Foster Dialogue and Harmony
We thank our sponsors: Nova Marketing Group, Triple J Canada, Sureway Press, CPAC, EAWLC, The League of Canadian Poets and Canadian poets Katherine L. Gordon and D.C. Reid.
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.
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
Liu Yang’s review of Anna Yin’s translation book What We Do Not Know was published in Cuba. (page 9-14)
Sept 6 – Open Mic at Cineplex Junxion, Erin Mills Town Centre
Sept 13 – Book Fair Central Library, Mississauga (Book exhibition)
Sept 26 – Stratford (Poetry for Health and Harmony)
Sept 27 – Peel Art Gallery, Brampton (Haiku Workshop with Anna Yin)
A Chinese Nightingale with new recorded version, Walking with the Star with three versions, two in English, one live music, one recorded in Studio and one beautiful Chinese version by musicians from Taiwan’s Poetry Factor: 唤醒 and other two works by 詩歌工廠: 《雪之夢》and 化妆舞会.
Zelko Odorcic from Nova Marketing Group sponsored this open table tennis competitions from Aug 9-12, he also sponsored Anna Yin’s Poetry and Music project, so here Anna is in My Table Tennis club to watch games and take photos! She also brought her books as gifts for Zelko to thank him for his support.
Today she also got other sponsors sending nice words about Poetry and Music project
here shared some:
——Hi Anna, This is really good. You have talents across many art forms. Dennis
——Dearest Anna, these are beautiful samples, I believe they will be treasured by many. It is a gift to reach out in music and words to the universal heart. You are so worthy of success, I am so happy to be a part of it, we both want to bring comfort to every needy spirit in these very difficult times. The common bond is so appreciated now.. Much love and support from Katherine.
—-Also got Bunny’s email for her kind and sweet support… Cheers!
Poetry and Music Project is proudly supported by our sponsors: Nova Marketing Group, Triple J Canada, Sureway Press, Mississauga Arts Council , and Canadian poets Katherine L. Gordon and D.C. Reid.
