About the Event
Poetry, Tea & Guqin: Du Fu, Li Bai & East-West Cultural Exchange ✨
"When ancient Tang poetry meets contemporary English translation over tea and the resonant chords of the Guqin."
Join us for an immersive cross-cultural afternoon featuring poetry, tea ceremony, live Guqin performance, and bilingual discussions at 7s Art (七堂).
🎶 Live Guqin Performance: Played by 7s Art founder Kevin Ge, bringing ancient zither melodies into the intimate studio space.
🍵 Traditional Tea Ceremony: Enjoy handpicked tea while immersing yourself in poetical rhythms.
📜 Poetry & Translation: A rich East-West exchange exploring how Du Fu and Li Bai’s classic masterpieces resonate in contemporary English.
People
01 /Host
Wang Jiaxin is a Chinese poet, essayist, translator, and professor at Renmin University of China. He is the author of over forty volumes of poetry, essays and translations.He has won many domestic and international awards. His collection of poems in English is Darkening Mirror (Tebot Bach, 2017), translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell, with a foreword by former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass. In recent years, following his retirement, he has primarily resided in New York. He has been invited to lecture, give readings, and serve as a poet-in-residence at numerous universities, poetry festivals, and literary institutions across the United States, Canada, and Europe. His work has appeared in more than a dozen American journals, including the The American Poetry Review, American Poets, The Kenyon Review,Poetry Daily,Washington Square Review and The Hopkins Review. His second collection of poems in English ,At the Same Time（Arrowsmith, 2025),translated by John Balcom,was selected by World Literature Today as one of the 75 notable translations of 2025 and was longlisted for the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
王家新，诗人，批评家，译者，生于湖北丹江口市，武汉大学中文系毕业，2006年起被中国人民大学文学院聘任为教授，博士生导师，其创作贯穿了中国当代诗歌四十多年来的历程，著有诗集、诗论随笔集和译诗集近五十种，作品被译成多种文字出版，其中包括德文诗选《哥特兰的黄昏》《晚来的献诗》《日记诗》、克罗地亚文诗选《夜行火车》、荷兰文诗选《黎明的灰烬》以及由美国前桂冠诗人罗伯特.哈斯作序的英译诗选《变暗的镜子》（2017）《与此同时》（2025）等。曾获多种国内外诗歌奖、诗学批评奖和翻译奖。近年退休后先后应邀在阿姆斯特丹做驻留作家，在美国、加拿大和欧洲一些大学、文学节、文学机构讲学和朗诵，作品在《美国诗歌评论》《肯庸评论》《美国诗人》《每日诗歌》《华盛顿广场评论》《霍普金斯评论》等十多种美国杂志上发表。近年来在国内新出版有诗选《未来的记忆：王家新四十年诗选》《旁注之诗：2016-2025》，诗论随笔选集《诗人与他的时代》《以歌的桅杆驶向大地》，译诗集《灰烬的光辉：保罗·策兰诗选》《山中之门：吉恩·瓦伦汀诗选》《永存我的话语：曼德尔施塔姆沃罗涅日诗集》，等。他的第二部英译诗选《与此同时》2025年秋出版后，被美国《今日世界文学》评选为2025年最值得关注的75部翻译作品之一，并入围美国笔会2026年翻译诗歌奖。
02 / Featured Poet
Scott Dalgarno counts himself fortunate to have seen his poems in APR, The Yale Review, The Antioch Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Iowa Review, and other journals. Three of his translations of the 8th Century Tang poet, Du Fu, were in The Adroit Journal, Issue Fifty-five. A translation of Du Fu was “Poem of the Week” in The Yale Review, April 22, 2026. Another translation of Du Fu appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 76 and was nominated for the Best Literary Translations Anthology. His volume, Third-Class Relics, was a finalist for the 2024 Sally Albiso Prize. It was published by MoonPath Press in 2025. He lives near Portland, Oregon.
斯科特·达尔加诺，美国诗人，诗作曾刊登在《美国诗歌评论》、《耶鲁评论》、《安蒂奥克评论》、《贝尔维尤文学评论》、《爱荷华评论》及其他刊物上。他的诗集《三等遗物》（Third-Class Relics）曾入围2024年“萨莉·阿尔比索奖”（Sally Albiso Prize），并于2025年由Moon Path出版社出版。他翻译的唐代诗人杜甫的三首诗作，发表于《灵巧杂志》（The Adroit Journal）第55期；其中一首入选了《耶鲁评论》2026年4月22日的“本周诗作”。他的另一首杜甫译作刊载于《海登渡口评论》（Hayden’s Ferry Review）第76期，并获得了“最佳文学翻译选集”奖项的提名。他现居住于俄勒冈州波特兰市附近。
03 / Featured Poet
L. B. Tsau ( Belinda Cao ) is a financial journalist and an editor of the New York-based Chinese poetry journal First Line (Yi Hang). She is the author of the Chinese poetry collection Soliloquies of Age (2023). Her original poetry and literary translations have been published across numerous Chinese and English literary journals. For literary exchanges, she can be reached at belinda.tsau@gmail.com
曹莉（常用笔名楚鸿、海鸿），留学并旅居美国20年，在国际英文新闻社任记者、编辑多年，兼任纽约《一行》诗刊编辑。著有诗集《年龄的独白》，并在《幸存者诗刊》《葡萄园诗刊》《两岸诗》《香港文学》《新大陆诗刊》，MAYDAY 杂志等多种文学期刊发表作品。诗作、散文入选海内外几十部诗文集，作品获得过北美华人文学征文活动的奖项。
04 / Host of 7s Art
Kevin Ge: Founder and Director of Qitang 7s Art, guqin and xiao player, and tea master. He currently serves asVice-President of the New York Guqin Society, and has wonthe Silver Prize for guqin and the Gold Prize for xiao at the New York International Folk Music Competition. Furthermore, he has studied Eastern floral art for many years and is currently a Kakō in the Ikenobo School of Ikebana. Dedicated to reviving the lifestyle of traditional literati gatherings in the modern city, he has devoted many years to the guqin, the tea ceremony and ikebana, advocating a multi-sensory aesthetic experience that blends ‘poetry, tea and the guqin’.
葛文潮：七堂 7s Art 创始人之一/堂主、古琴与箫演奏者、茶人。现任纽约古琴研究会副会长，曾获纽约民乐国际比赛古琴银奖、箫金奖。此外，他长年研习东方花艺，为日本池坊华道华匡。致力于在现代都市中复刻传统文人雅集的生活方式，深耕古琴、茶道与花道多年，倡导“诗、茶、琴”相融的多感官美学空间体验。
Event Detail
Date & Time
Thursday, November 12, 2026
2:00–4:00 PM
Location
7s Art Labo
36 East Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002