Cathy Xinman: Falling Petals
Cathy Xinman
April 16, 2026
“Falling Petals” is a poem about letting go, remembering without being crushed, and finding a reason to face tomorrow.
Author: Cathy Xinman
Cathy Xinman: Do Not Heal
Cathy Xinman
March 22, 2026
The poem juxtaposes elements such as AI, tariffs, and oil prices with the ephemeral presence of the cherry blossom.
Cathy Xinman: The Rose Doesn’t Know
Cathy Xinman
March 7, 2026
Xinman traces the journey of a rose—its beauty, its silence, its mortality—and invites us to witness how love persists in a world of turmoil.
The Brave Spring: A New Year’s Greeting
Cathy Xinman
February 17, 2026
In this New Year’s ode for the Year of the Horse, The Brave Spring weaves a warm fable around the thread of “sugar”.
Cathy Xinman: Love—an Unsolicited Light
Cathy Xinman
February 14, 2026
On Valentine’s Day, a Canadian poet asks what comes first—love or the morning?
Cathy Xinman: The River Cannot Be Blamed
Cathy Xinman
February 6, 2026
The River Cannot Be Blamed explores affection as a natural, unstoppable current—deep, sometimes dangerous, yet irresistible.
Cathy Xinman: The Moon Is So Far from Me, Let Alone People
Cathy Xinman
January 30, 2026
Have you ever stood under a full moon and felt not romance, but a profound and startling loneliness?
Cathy Xinman: Listen—A Quiet Welcome
Cathy Xinman
January 15, 2026
This is not a “peaceful morning poem”—it is a meditation on consciousness before daylight and on listening as resistance.
Cathy Xinman: What We Carry into the New Year
Cathy Xinman
January 1, 2026
In “What We Carry into the New Year”, the Canadian poet writes from a sweetness that has survived winter, time, and the knowledge of hurt.
Cathy Xinman: Today, Like Yesterday, Has Gone Far Away
Cathy Xinman
December 26, 2025
In the poem “Today, Like Yesterday, Has Gone Far Away”, the heart meets its own reflection in the face of the future.
Hybrid storytelling as a Filipino mode of collective healing
Staff
October 21, 2026
When the Stage Was the Anchor: The Architecture of the Chinese Mall
Paige Wen
October 19, 2026
Cathy Xinman: Beside the Autumn Garden
Cathy Xinman
October 18, 2026
My own security system flagged me, a Black woman, as an animal
Staff
October 16, 2026
The Mall That Was Subdivided into a City: Pacific Mall and the Hong Kong Property Model
Paige Wen
October 6, 2026
Ex-international student James Tseung converts pandemic isolation into soul-stirring Empty Room
Charlie Smith
October 6, 2026
Ryan Cho: Heritage trip to China brings on racial melancholia
Staff
October 4, 2026
The right to truth—and justice—need to be part of this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Staff
September 30, 2026
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