Encyclopedic Poetry School: An panoramic Exhibition

Yin Xiaoyuan( “殷晓媛” in Chinese) is an avant-garde, crossover epic poet as well as a multi-genre & multilingual writer, founder of Encyclopedic Poetry School (est. 2007), initiator of Hermaphroditic Writing Movement since 2014.

Yin Xiaoyuan graduated from Beijing International Studies University. She is a member of Writers’ Association of China, Translators’ Association of China and Poetry Institute of China. She has published 11 books including 5 poetry anthologies: Ephemeral Memories(Dazhong literature & art publishing, 2010), Beyond the Tzolk’in (China Federation of Literary and Art Publishing House, 2013), Avant-garde Trilogy(Tuanjie Publishing House, 2015) , Agent d’ensemencement des nuages (Encyclopedic Poetry School’ 10th Anniversary Series)(Beiyue Literature & Art Publishing House, 2017), and Cloud Seeding Agent (Pinyon Publishing, USA; nominated for “National Translation Award” of American Literary Translator’s Association and “Four Quartets Award” of Poetry Society Of America); and 6 translations, including The Ruby in Her Navel (Tsinghua University Press, 2014) by Booker Prize winner Barry Unsworth, a translation of contemporary New York poet/artist Bill Wolak’s poetry anthology Become a River (New Feral, 2018), two novels from Japanese and a haiku anthology. T.V.Petrusenko, Head of Acquisition Department, National Library of Russian, referred to the works by Encyclopedic Poetry School as “a new trend of contemporary Chinese poetry”, and Glennys Reyes Tapia, Head of Collection Department, BNPHU, described them as “bibliographical treasure of their (Chinese) culture”.

She wrote 18 epics (which add up to a total of 70 thousand lines) and 24 volumes of encyclopedic poems.

Her works were published in 30+ languages and published home and abroad, including The New Humanist, The Poet(UK), Comhar(Ireland), Chicago Review, Madswirl, Pinyon Review, Contrapuntos (USA), Poesia, L'Ulisse, La Macchina Sognante, Argo, Rivista Letteraria (Italy), La Libélula Vaga, Aullido, La Revista Áurea(Spain), Poesía÷Neón(Mexico), Diastixo, ENEKEN(Greece), Literarische Blätter, Munich Literature(Germany), Recours au poème, Revue A(France), Buenos Aires Poetry, Revista Excéntrica(Argentina), Adelaide(Portugal), Obelisk(Albania), Лиterraтура, Новая Литература(Russia), etc. Her works have been included in the international poetry anthology Caminos sin fronteras(Spain), Spring's Blue Ribbon(Hamburg, Germany), ACANTO(Portugal), etc. She is one of the cover poets of Revista Conexão Literatura(Brazil). Her works have been broadcast in “Namaashoum”(Canada), “RTV Slovenija”(Slovenia) and “Radio Timișoara”(Romania). She also co-edited “POESÍA SIN FRONTERAS VII--Antología de poesía chino-española” with Jaime B. Rosa (Olelibros, 2021).

She has travelled around China by her own, challenging mountains including Mount Huang, Mount Hua, Mount Heng (Hunan) and Mount Tai, which she summited on foot.

She is also editor and visual designer of “Encyclopedic Poetry School A.I. Papercube” (10th Anniversary Special Edition) , “12th Anniversary Poetry╳ Photography╳ Manuscripts Album” and “2020 Yearbook: Poetry╳ Photography”, “2020 Deluxe Version: Poetry╳ Photography╳ Manuscripts Album”, and “2020 ‘Hymn to Poetry’: Online International Poetry Festival CD Album”; director and visual designer of “12th Anniversary Poetry ╳Tea Deluxe Gift Set” and “12th Anniversary Commemorative Medallions”. She also directs “Encyclopedic Poetry School Creative Writing & Integrated Art Workshop”, organizing poets, writers, dramatists, musicians and visual/installation/photography/calligraphy artists for cultural projects.

Born in Taizhou, Zhejiang, in 1958. After graduating from the Department of Chinese Language and Culture of Zhejiang University in 1982, he worked in various positions , including as a government official, chief-editor of a newspaper, and executive of a large-scale enterprise; at present he is a professor in the School of the Institute of Public Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University. He has 6 poetry anthologies published: Triangular Prism (1984), A Boat Sailing Alone (1992), Turbulent Boundaries (2004), Tossing Dice into the Sea (2013), Kangrinboqe (2016) and Armillary Sphere (2017). His poems are included in An Anthology of Young Poets (1981–1982), 300 Misty Poems, and various other collections. Tossing
Dice into the Sea won a silver medal in the first Qu Yuan Poetry Award (2013), and he won the 2nd Jiangnan Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the first Good Poetry of China Award for the poem “Clock Store.” His works have been translated into English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Sun Qian is a poet and writer, born in the 50’s in Bao Ji ("Cradle of bronzeware”), Shaanxi  Province, while having roots in old imperial capital Luo Yang, who has been engaged in poetry writing for 30+ years, whose poetry anthologies include Book of Spiritual Strength, The New Rubáiyát, The Muslim Poems, The Book of Realms, a collection of his poems and essays Sagittarius Rising and many other literary works. His works have appeared in Poetry, the Stars, Writers, Ethnic minorities’ Literature, Oriental and Occidental Poetry, One Line (America), The Blue Star, Epoch Poetry, International Chinese literary(Australia), and several other magazines abroad. His works were translated into English, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabian, Bengali and Romanian, and included in a variety of poetry selections home and abroad.

Encyclopedic Poetry School is an avant-garde, experimental literary group, based geographically in China, founded by epic poet Yin Xiaoyuan in 2007, a team of poets, writers and multi-genre writers engaged in encyclopedic writing in the long-term project “Encyclopedic Poetry School Creative Writing & Integrated Art Workshop”, in collaboration worldwide with 500+ international poets on various projects. Their works have been translated into 30+ languages and published globally.  

During 2022 the team started collaborations on poetic projects with Visual China Group, the biggest photo&media agency in China, also national tourism offices of Estonia, Austria, Portugal and Mauritius, Kingston of Canada. They also collaborated with Shanghai Botanical Garden on a poetic series of 9 special editions on poetry.

They are also the first and only literary group in cooperation with 100+ bookstores all over China.

“百科诗派”由中国诗人殷晓媛创立于2007年，是以多语种、综合文体进行先锋、智库型实验创作及其文本跨界衍生创意合作的文学流派。作品被译为法语、德语、西班牙语、意大利语、瑞典语、葡萄牙语、阿拉伯语、爱尔兰语、芬兰语、罗马尼亚语、希腊语等30余种外语。今年起开始尝试文旅类写作，目前已与爱沙尼亚、奥地利、葡萄牙、毛里求斯国家旅游局、金斯顿旅游局，及国内视觉中国、上海植物园等多家媒体合作。“百科诗派”目前与全国100+家书店建立了合作关系。
 

Members:

YIN Xiaoyuan (Founder)
WANG Ziliang (key member)
SUN Qian (key member)
DONG Guixin (fellow poet)
LIU Yage  (fellow poet)
Ölmalerico  (fellow poet)
Rick Rugang Ye  (fellow poet)
ZHAO Chuan  (fellow poet)
PAN Liming  (fellow poet)