Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022.

In Life as in Love, We Must

Assist as we
Insist, persist or resist 
To subsist

Alternative Sex

Old as I am, I often fail
Even to knock your door
Open, let alone occupy
Your hall of warmth &
Tenderness, but thank
God, your femininity is 
Strong enough to have
Made me pregnant with 
Twins: documentary
Romance & love poetry

Lingua Franco: for Helena Qi Hong

            With words gushing out of 
My innermost being, by following
The syntax of the superpower’s language 
I have built an ethereal monument of
Immortality, a universal museum of
The human heart, where the most
Treasured mainstay is my thought of you