By Boston Paul, for The Wild East WHEN: Saturday, June 18 at 6:00pm – June 19 at 2:00am WHERE: The Refuge Community in Taichung @ Dakeng DongShan Paradise 東山樂園! 台中市北屯區東山路二段151之2號 東山樂園 Taichung Taiwan The Written Word is Solace, A Sword, A Universe in a World. Fellow Earthlings that spend a
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RED ROOM literary gathering meets in Taipei
Stage Time and Wine @ The Red Room is a space where every month artists, writers, poets may gather and read aloud, sing, hear the words and music of others, and of all things, listen. You can bring something you have written or choose a passage from somewhere else that
Read more'The Pleasure Behind the Poem': Steve Bradbury, poetry translator
By Owain Mckimm, Special to The Wild East In the small circle of Taiwanese poetry buffs, Steve Bradbury must be the most talkative; and thankfully so, because if Taiwanese poetry needs anything at the moment, it’s a talker. An associate professor at National Central University and editor of pan-Asian journal
Read moreWriter Richard Saunders: How He Caught The Taiwan Travel Bug
Richard: I originally came to Taiwan in 1993 to get a job for three months! I was made redundant in England, and rather than sign on for unemployment came out here to find work teaching English for a few months until I regained enough fighting spirit to start searching for a job. In the end I got a great job up in the mountains an English teacher in Puli, Nantou County, in the center of the island, and never left!
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