Jianqing Zheng’s Visual Cords (Broken Tribe Press 2025) and Dreaminations (Madville Publishing 2026) capture discrete moments in time with seamless beauty and often echo imagistic poetry with Zheng’s striking use of images and precise, concrete language. The poet, who spent his first thirty-some years in China and the last thirty-plus years in Mississippi, displays considerable […]
“Visual Cords” and “Dreaminations” poetry collections by Jianqing Zheng
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Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Jianqing Zheng
Claire Hamner Matturro: First off, congratulations Jianqing Zheng on your two new masterful poetry publications–Visual Chords, published by Broken Tribe Press in July 2025 and Dreaminations, from Madville Publishing in January 2026. Visual Chords is a collection of ekphrastic poems after photographs by Dorothea Lange, Bill Ferris, Leo Touchet and other modern and contemporary photographers with […]
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