EP163: Wang Ping A Poet Rower Aging Actively as Part of Nature

February 29, 2024
Wang Ping is a poet, writer, photographer, installation artist, founder and director of Kinship of Rivers project. Her multi-media exhibitions include “Kinship of Rivers: We Are Water,” “Behind the Gate: After the Flood of the Three Gorges,” and hundreds of other installation exhibitions at schools, colleges, galleries, museums, lock and dams, confluences around the world, including the interactive installations at the Everest (Tibet and Nepal sides) and Kilimanjaro.

Ping, Professor Emerita of English at Macalester College, has authored 15 award winning books of poetry, prose and translations. Her awards include Minnesota Book Award, Eugene Kagen, and Asian American Studies awards.

Ping is also a recipient of grants from the NEA, Bush Artist Fellowship for poetry, McKnight Fellowship and residencies through the Lannan Foundation Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and many others. She received Distinct Immigrant Award in 2014, Venezuela International Poet of Honor in 2015, and Minnesota Poet Laureate 2021-2023, appointed by International Beat Poetry Foundation.

Ping’s website
Ping on IG
Kinship of Rivers project
Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Missippi, by Wang Ping
Aching for Beauty: Footbinging in China, by Wang Ping
A Long, Shining River of Verse, Flowing From a Rower and Writer, John Branch, NYT, 07.17.23
Quapaw Canoe Company
The Golden Notebook, by Dorris Lessing