Wang Ping has published thirteen books of poetry and prose. She’s the recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan, and McKnight fellowships, director of the Kinship of Rivers project, and professor of English at Macalester College. Her multimedia exhibitions include Behind the Gate: After the Flood of the Three Gorges and We Are Water: Kinship of Rivers.
Photo: Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
after Ferlinghetti
Pity the nation whose freedom melts faster than
Arctic ice
Whose justice defends sex predators & puts children
in jail.
Pity the nati…