Wang Ping to speak about Kinship of Rivers project

October 12, 2018 – Poet, artist and educator Wang Ping will speak at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls about her Kinship of Rivers project on Monday, Oct. 22, from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Riverview Ballroom in the University Center. The talk is free and open to the public.

Kinship of Rivers is an effort to bring rivers and river communities together through poetry, story, music, art, dance, food, prayer flags and paddling. Far reaching, the project links people and places along the Yangtze and Mississippi Rivers.

A recipient of the Bush Artist Fellowship for poetry, the McKnight Fellowship for nonfiction, an NEA grant and many other honors, Ping grew up as a peasant in China, but was determined to go to college and today is a professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul.

Her newest book "Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi," (University of Georgia Press, 2018), has already been awarded the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. Ping’s writings have been translated into multiple languages and include poetry, short stories, novels, cultural studies, and children stories.

The event is hosted by the UWRF Sustainability Faculty Fellows.

For more information about the event, email greta.gaard@uwrf.edu or call 715-425-4195.