Blog Tag - poetry

Mandarin Monday: Learn Idioms And Poems With These Ancient Word Games
Submitted on Nov 23, 2020
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends. When it...
An Interview with Siddharth Dasgupta
Submitted on Jul 27, 2020
Spittoon Monthly presents an interview with poet and novelist Siddharth Dasgupta discusses the erotic nature of cities, the indivisibility of place...
COVID-19 Lessons Learned, and Forgotten, With Poetry x Music's Anthony Tao
Submitted on Jun 27, 2020
At its best, art expresses the inexpressible. It presents the human condition in a novel, yet uncanny way and gives voice to the myriad...
"Day in the Body Sprouts Again": Featured Poetry Translation
Submitted on Jun 03, 2019
This article is provided by our content partners Spittoon Collective. You can read more content just like this from Beijing's creative literary minds...
Sly Gingkoes and the Global Bully Language: Featured Poetry Translation
Submitted on Feb 24, 2019
With temperatures still firmly below zero, there’s no better poem to comment on than Li Haipeng’s ‘Winter Monogatari’, translated by Henry Zhang....
Big Crab/Crab Big: The Tricky Art of Translating Chinese Poetry
Submitted on Dec 22, 2018
Hello everybody! Dropping temperatures are the perfect excuse to curl up with a hot beverage and some great poetry, right? I'd like to introduce you...
Competing Poets: Spittoon and BLK GEN Bring Grand Slam to Yue Space, Jun 3
Submitted on May 31, 2018
On Jun 3, some of Beijing's most enthused scribes will go word-to-word at Yue Space for a rhyming, verbose standoff for the ages as part of the...
Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Dec 11-17
Submitted on Dec 11, 2017
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
Nosedive Into the Universe of Spoken Word With Spittoon Collective
Submitted on Sep 17, 2017
If there was ever a reason to complain about the lack of diversity in Beijing's literature world, it's surely not now. The world of words has been...
Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Aug 21-27
Submitted on Aug 21, 2017
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
R Party Time for Poets at Launch of Second Spittoon Magazine
Submitted on May 14, 2017
Spittoon is now well established as one of the prime movers in Beijing’s flourishing literary and artistic scene. Last year we reported on the...
R1 Rock Meets Rhyme at DDC
Submitted on Feb 22, 2017
Spittoon is fast becoming a familiar brand in Beijing, having already branched out from a poetry night to a fiction night, then a literary magazine....
Great Expectorations for 'Spittoon,' Beijing's Newest Literary Magazine
Submitted on Nov 16, 2016
Over 200 people attended the launch of Beijing’s newest literary magazine on Saturday, November 12. Spittoon shares its name with the popular poetry...
Celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, Free Coffee at the Kempinski in Return for Poem
Submitted on Mar 17, 2016
This Monday, March 21, is World Poetry Day, and in order to celebrate the Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center will be exercising a "Pay with a...
Literary Lushes: China’s Ancient Poets and Writers Liked Their Drink
Submitted on Mar 13, 2016
The pages of Chinese literature are soaked with alcohol. Even Confucius wasn’t immune. The persnickety sage might have been careful with his portion...