[Verse 1 – Childhood]
As a child, I knew no distant land.
My father stood—a tall, unshaken stand.
Step by step, I learned to climb,
Chasing dreams where stars shine.
[Verse 2 – School Years]
With curious heart, I went to school,
My father was my steady tool.
I gripped the seat and held on tight,
He pedaled me toward books and light.
[Chorus]
He lifted me in quiet grace,
His shoulders held the sky in place.
His gaze, a sail to send me wide—
No matter how far I may fly,
He stands where home and love abide.
[Verse 3 – Youth]
In youth, I chased the winds of fire,
My father was a slender wire.
Not too loose and not too tight,
He let me soar in open light.
[Chorus]
He lifted me…
[Verse 4 – Immigration]
Then life pulled me across the seas,
His voice came softly through the breeze.
“Take care,” he said—so calm, so spare,
A mountain’s love wrapped in the air.
[Final Chorus – Variation]
Still he lifts me from afar,
Across each ocean, under every star.
Though years have lined his watching eyes,
No matter how far I roam,
His love is where my spirit flies.
[Closing Line]
Father is a mountain, standing tall,
Lifting dreams though oceans call.
Through time and tide, I always know—
He lights my path, he guards my road.
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Welcome to Oct events, Poet in Class and Poetry reading and more
Welcome to October, 2024…. Anna Yin will complete MAC grant project soon and will have two other events: Poet in Class and 6 poets reading at Toronto public library. Thanks Mississauga Arts Council, Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésieThe League of Canadian Poets.
Sureway Press will have another book of translations (After Midnight/子夜过后）ready for Thanksgivings.
“After Midnight/ 子夜过后” by Katherine L . Gordon, Chinese trans by Anna Yin will be published soon, Congratulations
ISBN/国际书号： 978-1-998911-04-2
Book Design/诗集设计: Anna Yin (星子安娜) Book Cover/封面设计：Oliver Yang（杨鸿）
Foreword
After Midnight is a collection of poems that reflect some vibrant years of discovery, observation and experience of what being alive in this vast sea of life really means for each of us, as we seek a place in a huge and complicated universe. Some of it is lonely, some of it so intimately connected with all natural phenomena that we are never truly alone.
We mature into connection: a moon-beam caught on the path, a leaf before winter in our hand, a rose opening in wonder, a heart that beats with wind and water murmur. The closer we draw to the miraculous world we are all born into, the more part of cosmic motion we are bound to feel. It is the only antidote to that anxiety of separation, the only comfort in love gone astray, health disappeared, hope a spark that needs fanning.
All of us fade into other star-fields, our words, art and music may remain, though it may be “after midnight” that they appear to us.
Katherine L. Gordon， tumultuous year of climate and history, 2024
KATHERINE L. GORDON : MOON PASSION IN THE SHIFT OF EARTH
VIDEO AND MUSIC BY EVAN GORDON
This is a poem for Dylan Thomas Day 2024 which won a price in Italy.
Katherine also won 2024 IL MELETO DI GUIDO GOZZANO poetry contest the SECOND PRIZE.
美丽的邂逅/Beautiful Encounters from this book was on 《漂木诗刊》
Steven Xu reviewing this book on Live Encounters Poetry and Writings (Feb, 2025)
Katerina Fretwell reviewing this book for Verse Afire ( May, 2025)
Anna Yin’s Asian Trip was a great success
Anna Yin spent two months to travel to Japan, mainland China and Taibei, she has shared her poetry and translations while there. Here are reports about ten of her major events during her trip. Congratulations!
Anna Yin’s poetry events in Nanjing, China (three universities)
Three Poetry readings in May in NanJing, China
Anna will share poems from “What We Do Not Know”, “Mirrors and Windows” and “Love’s Lighthouse”.
Showcasing Photos and Poems for Public Art and Poetry Film project 2023
We are glad to receive some fine submissions and the following are selected and Congratulations to Pratap Reddy, Serina Lewis & Ding Rui. Thank you all for participation.
Anna Yin’s translations with Yan Li’s poems in Denver Quarterly 2023 #57.3
“现实 / Reality”, “酒 / Booze” & ”添煤 / Adding Fuel” (Yan Li’s poems with Anna Yin’s translations) were published in Denver Quarterly (2023， #57.3)
祝贺加拿大总督文学奖提名诗人Don Gutteridge’s 英文诗以及中译出版，译者星子安娜
星光织锦是加拿人诗人Don对诗以及先辈们的景仰，也是生活以及历史的珍贵写照。星子安娜为我们搭建另一种语言窗口去了解和欣赏，值得推崇！–辛牧 （《创世纪诗刊》主编）
In Don Gutteridge’s Starlight Tapestry, Anna Yin presents a superb group of poems full of ripe
wisdom from a poet who has played a central role in Canadian literature for more than fifty
years. And she contributes to Chinese poetry with her translations of Gutteridge’s work and
vision. Gutteridge is a poet of “the loving lustre of our life / together”. His is a world that is
“always / a burled beginning, all feel / and sense and tendrill’d touch.” The poet’s veneration for
all good things that he encounters is vividly displayed in this collection.
—A. F. Moritz
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。
Anna Yin was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and has authored five poetry collections and a book of translations: “Mirrors and Windows”(Guernica Editions). Her poems/translations won awards and appeared at ARC Poetry, New York Times, Queen’s Quarterly, China Daily, CBC Radio etc. She teaches Poetry Alive. Her website: annapoetry.com
Anna Yin Reviewing George Swede’s 2022 book: The Way A Poem Emerges: A Haiku Trinity & Beyond
Anna was asked to review George’s new book and it will be published in Verse Afire Jan. 2023