The NYU Shanghai Poetry Club's freshmen poets, led by Timothy Tomlinson and his wife Deedle, meet weekly to talk and write poetry. Here's a collection of our best work.
Creative takes
Let the Poetry Club serenade you
May 7th, 2012 | by Sarah Brady | published in Creative takes, Features
Our China
April 27th, 2012 | by Sarah Brady | published in Creative takes
Sarah Brady writes, in poetic prose, about experiencing China through moments and the senses.
On Zaoyang Lu
April 8th, 2012 | by Sarah Brady | published in Creative takes
In her poem, Sarah Brady describes sights on the ECNU campus backstreet, and how she sees them.
Shanghai architecture: Three closeups
March 15th, 2012 | by Sophie Elias | published in Arts & Culture, Creative takes, photography, zS Blogs
Sophie Elias' photos of Jing'an Temple, the ECNU front gate and the Oriental Pearl Tower address China's twin obsessions with futuristic modernism and traditional forms
Shanghai Taxicab Tales: "Welcome to Take My Taxi"
December 28th, 2011 | by Jessie Hsia | published in Creative takes, Features
Jessie Hsia explores the world of Shanghai cabbies one conversation, one kilometer, one RMB and one unexpected experience at a time. You'll never see shifu quite the same way again…
A look back at the 2011 fall semester at NYU Shanghai
December 22nd, 2011 | by Sarah Brady | published in Creative takes, photography, zS Blogs
Sarah Brady shares a short photo essay on Shanghai, student life and the fall semester, from picturesque lanes to KTV, mahjong to art openings
Fifty Students on a Mountaintop: Writing in Moganshan (video)
November 26th, 2011 | by zaiShanghai | published in Creative takes, Features
NYU Liberal Studies Core Program students—aka "the Freshmen"—headed to Moganshan for a weekend of writing, hiking and exploration, both of crumbling Jazz Age foreign concession-era resort villas and of their own emerging identities as writers. LSP Core student Eulalie van Leeuwen a.k.a. Lily Lion was there with her camera, recording students reading their work in the […]
A Visual Taste of Shanghai: A trip to Gansu (video)
November 16th, 2011 | by Andi Akpe | published in Creative takes, Features
In the third of Andi Akpe's documentary shorts on life at NYU Shanghai, he heads to the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan Buddhist monasteries of far west Gansu
No Chaos Under Heaven
October 10th, 2011 | by Brandon Chew | published in Creative takes, Features, Magazine
Acceptance speech by Ping O. upon confirmation of her promotion to Director of the Ministry of Freak Accidents, Shanghai Division. December 8, XXXX. Accessible from the Audio-Visual Records Department, code 18693. Part one of three. “Comrades, colleagues…what an honor! I never expected such a swift and glorious Ministry response to my actions and experiments. Not that I didn’t […]
Rhythm City
October 3rd, 2011 | by Sarah Brady | published in Creative takes, photography, zS Blogs
Sarah Brady splices images and language in a free jazz-flavored mashup that runs down the poetry and rhythm of Shanghai in all of its flash and speed.