Anna Yin is an IT Geek and poet, who was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 1999. Her passion for poetry blossomed shortly thereafter. She won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award and 2010 MARTY Award for her poetry, along with other awards. In 2011, her debut collection of poetry Wings Toward Sunlight was published by Mosaic Press. She is an honoured member of the League of Canadian Poets. CBC Radio has interviewed her on two occasions, and her poems written in both English & Chinese, along with ten translations, were published in a Canadian Studies’ textbook used by Humber College. Her Poetry Alive events have been a new approach to helping people explore and appreciate poetry, and Rogers TV Daytime show invited her on their show to talk about "how to write poems." She was a finalist for Canada's Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Awards in 2011 and is again a finalist in 2012. Anna holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Nanjing University and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Toronto. She works in an IT company and lives in Mississauga.
For more information, visit Anna Yin at her website.
Seeds of a Bailout
The chilly wind blows
leaves hastily fall.
In shattered scarlet
trees, young and old,
shiver.
On Wall Street,
behind bleeding screens,
reddish clumps
become burning fires.
Among branches’ shadowy limbs
woodpeckers retreat
their black beaks blunt.
Hollow eyes stare at the panicked street:
lies tangle in greed climb the twisted charts.
Soon, it all will turn to ash
inhaled by everyone–
wring sweat and blood
from our flesh.
Plowing through billions of seeds,
we hold our breath–
with the coming snow,
what else but plowing?
(from “Tough Time” when the money doesn’t love us: (Black Moss Press)
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