Late Chinese Poet Who Attended University Of Iowa’s Writing Program Invokes My Jealousy

Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg on Unsplash

Call me envious, bitter, invidious, resentful. This time I am utterly jealous of the late poet Hu Xudong (胡续冬) who has sadly left us at the tender age of 47 years. Why? Not only because this program is considered one of the best in the world, but also because it invokes curiosity as to how exactly literary superstars spend their very last…