VSC residents and 2015 Luce Foundation Fellows Yi Mimi and her translator Steve Bradbury read a selection of poems in the Mason House Library.
Ye Mimi is a Taiwanese poet and filmmaker. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Department at Dong Hwa University and the MFA Film Department at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is the author of two volumes of poetry and has internationally exhibited several of her poetry films. Through collaging her words and images, she improvises a new landscape trying to erase the border between poetry and image making. Most recently, a bilingual chapbook of her poems was published by Anomalous Press under the title His Days Go by the Way Her Years.
Steve Bradbury is a long-standing member of American Literary Translators Association and a former professor of English who translates the work of contemporary poets writing in Chinese. His most recent translations (Ye Mimi’s His Days Go By the Way Her Years and Hsia Yü’s Salsa) were short-listed for (respectively) the 2014 Best Translated Book Award and 2015 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. He lives in Ft. White, Florida.
