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.
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 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)
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.
