On the evening of November 28, Stephanie Anderson, the postdoctoral researcher of Institute for World Literatures and Cultures (IWLC) and Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows, launched herpoetry anthology, If You Love the Error So Love Zero, at the Book Worm Club of Chaoyang District, Beijing.

After reciting some poems like Yield to the Body, Flight PathandRemembering in Third Perso, Stephanie had a conversationwith SimonShieh, the project director of Creative ArtsEducation of InkBeat Arts, about the cover and illustrationdesign, the process of poetry creation and publication and so on. The anthology, according toStephanie, is like a “flowing notebook”, picking up the moment of various feelings in daily life, and exploring the modern experiencessuch as trauma, domestic violence and romantic love. This experimental poetry collection combines sound, vision, picture, music and other elements to create strikingvisual effect through the arrangement of lines, the blankspace on the pages and the combination of words.

Poetry reading

Attendants mainly includedpostdoctoral researchers of Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows and poetry lovers in Beijing. They had a heated discussionabout the relationship between spontaneity and consciousness in poetry writing, the relationship between literary writing and academic research, and the two-way influence between poetry and physical experience. Stephanie latersigned her books for the audience.

book signing

Stephanie Anderson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently the If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018), as well as several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Bone Bouquet, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Guernica, Lana Turner, nonsite.org, Spittoon, and elsewhere. She co-edits the micropress Projective Industries and lives in Beijing, where she is a member of the Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows in the Institute for World Cultures and Literatures at Tsinghua University.