“Writing When the World’s a Mess” by Weijia Pan

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Weijia Pan is a poet and translator from Shanghai, China. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Boulevard, Copper Nickel, Georgia Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, and his first collection, Motherlands, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2024.

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