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.
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.
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…
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 […]
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 […]
A new viewpoint*
October 2nd, 2011 | by Batul Abbas | published in Creative takes, Magazine
Batul Abbas juxtaposes translated/found language fragments from a student essay toward an exploration of perceptions of race and ethnicity in Shanghai.
Learning, forgetting, and relearning my ABCs
September 1st, 2011 | by Lucy Wang | published in Creative takes, Magazine
Lucy Wang's hilarious take on growing up between countries and cultures … and surviving cross-cultural embarrassments with style
Fermata
August 22nd, 2011 | by Noor Chadha | published in Creative takes, Magazine
Noor Chadha's poetry (in Chinese and English), written as part of a larger multimedia project, "Fermata," documenting her semester at NYU Shanghai.
Body
October 13th, 2010 | by George Zhang | published in Creative takes, Photography, zS Blogs
George Zhang enters the ebb and flow of people and traffic coursing through Shanghai's streets, pulling singular images from the mix that animate sharp-eyed, lyrical reflections.
Xiangfan New Year
October 1st, 2010 | by Bram Schumer | published in Creative takes, Magazine
Bram Schumer does Chinese New Year with his new Chinese boyfriend's small-town family. Fireworks, feasts and awkward moments ensue.