The 3rd Flushing (法拉盛) Poetry Festival will be held in April this year to celebrate modern Chinese poets     1     (live) overseas and encourage cross-cultural conversation and translation of poetry from these poets. Poems should be submitted before February 15, 2021     2     (compete) in the festival, which will be open to the public in Chinese and English     3     free.

The festival was started by poets of Chinese descent (血统) in the USA, and this     4     (year) event will be hosted by the editorial committee of First Line New York, an online poetry magazine     5     (attach) to the Flushing Poetry Festival. The purpose is to encourage Chinese poets overseas to publish their original writing, and build a bridge between Chinese poets and poets writing in English and     6     languages. The festival will be held during the time of the National Poetry Month in the USA,     7     the place and the form of the event will be decided later due to the COVID-19 situation.

The lst and 2nd Flushing Poetry Festivals were held in 2018 and 2019     8     (separate) and winning poetry     9    (publish) online. The schedule of the two previous festivals included     10     award ceremony, poetry reading and group discussion.

It was Mid-Autumn Festival. 79-year-old Bill Porter     1     (grab) a glass of whiskey while enjoying the full moon, and recited an ancient Chinese poem outside his house in the United States. Porter has translated some 2,000 Chinese poems     2     English and published a series of books related to Chinese poetry and philosophy in the past decades.

“To me, the beauty about ancient Chinese poems is     3     the lines of poetry are usually short, with five or seven Chinese     4     (character). You have to read them many times before you can discover their inside meaning. It’s like     5     adventure. “Among Porter’s favorite poets were Su Shi, noted for his optimism in the face of challenges,     6     Tao Yuanming, an Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420) poet famous for his pursuit of free spirit.     7     (see) the Chinese poets as his dear friends, Porter once traveled across China to visit their former residences, birthplaces and graves.

Currently, Porter is translating more poems by Tao Yuanming, and his translation work Poems of the Masters     8     (publish) in China soon. He will continue working hard to introduce the beauty of the     9     (tradition) Chinese culture to Westerners. “The Chinese culture is like a treasure chest,” he said, “I would like     10     (share) the treasure I found with others.”