About the Author

Wing-Chi Chan 陳詠智, Chair Professor for Classics at Beijing Capital Normal University, is a Washington-based poet cum musician.  Under this poetry anthology, Chan employs various illustrative fonts to vitalize a synchronized tonal rhyming wordscape which visually displays a textured density of calligraphic art for point, line, shape, curve and spatiality, encapsulating a vision of the twenty-first-century pointillism, stratification, minimalism and serialism, in mirroring of the ink-brushing fugue melodies on an unsung passion derived from a pathétique sonata for the vulnerable.  Chan’s poems have been broadcasted and recorded under The Poet & The Poem from the Library of Congress and been listed/documented under A Splendid Wake–up Blog of the George Washington University’s Gelman Library.  Chan has been serving as presenter/producer for the RHYMING FOR THE NANKING MASSACRE VICTIMS at the Arts Club of Washington and POETRY EXTRAVANGAZA/ UNA POESÍA EN ECO POETRY IN ECHO at the George Washington University.  A wide range of Chan’s poetry has been published, including MASS FOR NANKING’S 1937: Synchronizing Musics and Tonal Rhyming onto Poetry, Washington: The New Academia Publishing, 2016 [Being rated for 5.0 out of 5 stars at Amazon];  A Duo Concerto For Moon & Noon, under 2015 MiPOesias of Washington;  poems under the Federal Poets, 2018-2020.  Also he served as Visiting Scholar at Yale and consultants for National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey and South Carolina Arts Commissions, D.C. Mayor’s Office, and China National Symphony; D.C. Commissioner for National & Communities Services; Project Director for Meet The Composer New Residencies Program; Vice President for Washington Symphony Orchestra’s Board; adjunct professor of Shenyang Music Conservatory in China, and Master’s thesis external examiner for New York University.  During his tenure as Development Director, Chan raised millions of dollars to operate the Washington, DC Youth Orchestra’s ten concert tours to Europe and Asia.  In 2007, Chan, as choral conductor, took a team of twelve American vocalists to participate in a Memorial Concert for the 70th Anniversary of Nanking Massacre.