#  Video: Shangyang Fang Poetry Reading: Study of Sorrow 

 





December 05, 2025

 

 

On October 8, 2025, in the CSWR Common Room, the CSWR and Sherah Bloor, Editor-in-Chief of *Peripheries*, hosted a celebration of the publication of *Study of Sorrow: Translations* (Copper Canyon Press, October 2025). Shangyang Fang read his translations of Song Dynasty *Ci* poems, which transform individual sadness into a collective experience spanning time, people, and place. Fang’s work, celebrated for its lyrical depth and emotional resonance, bridges cultures and traditions with a distinct poetic voice.

SHANGYANG FANG grew up in Chengdu, China. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois and is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. He has received the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Award and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His poems have appeared in *The Nation, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology,* and *The Forward Book of Poetry Anthology*. Fang is an Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of the poetry collection, *Burying the Mountain* (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), and the translation book, *Study of Sorrow: Translations* (Copper Canyon Press, 2025).



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 

 



 

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