Poet Pui Ying Wong - Fanling in October

Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired Oct. 10, 2023) featuring poet Pui Ying Wong and her new collection Fanling In October, and co-host poet Lee Slonimsky.  Poet Pui Ying Wong’s new collection, Fanling In October has just been published by Barrow Street Press. She’s also the author of three other collections: The Feast, An Emigrant’s Winter and Yellow Plum Season along with two chapbooks: Sonnet For a New Country and Mementos. She has received a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Plume, Chicago Quarterly Review, New Letters, Zone 3 among many others. Born in Hong Kong she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, the poet Tim Suermondt.Lee Slonimsky’s latest books are Pythagoras and the Animals in Greece, translated by Stamatis Polenakis and Caterina Marikoupou, Pythagoras in Love in Italy, translated by Enrico Bernard, and Bright Yellow Buzz in the United States.  On November 2, he will lecture at the Keats/Shelley House Museum in Rome on the historical connections among Pythagroras, Petrarch, Shakespeare, and John Keats.  His wife, Carol Goodman, two time winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award, is just out with her latest literary thriller, The Bones of the Story.