China-Charm: For Georg Lai Yuan

Allen Qing Yuan, born in Canada and aged 17, attends high school in Vancouver and co-hosts the e.zine Poetry Pacific. Encouraged by his father, Changming Yuan, Allen’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in more than 40 literary journals across twelve countries, including Blue Fifth Review, Contemporary American Voices, Cordite Poetry Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Ottawa Arts Review, MOBIUS, Paris/Atlantic, PoetsWest, Spillway, Taj Mahal Review and Toronto Quarterly. He is currently reading Orwell’s 1984 and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.