On December 23, 2021, the Poetry Journal announced the special award for the "Centennial Road, New Journey" poetry creation project and the winners of the 2020 Chen Ziang Poetry Award of poetry journal. Among them, Gu Ma, vice chairman of the Gansu Writers Association, grouped the poem "Xi Xue" and won the 2020 Chen Ziang Poetry Award of the Poetry Journal; Xiong Yan, chairman of the Chengdu Writers Association and executive editor of "Caotang", group poem "Ciqikou", and Zheng Xiaoqiong, vice president of works magazine, group poem "Pearl" won the 2020 Chen Ziang Poetry Award Young Poet Award of the Poetry Journal.
Xiong Yan is the headline poet of poetry magazine in April 2020, and the group poem published is "Ciqikou". Xiong Yan's group poem "Ciqikou" is natural and simple in style, the promotion is calm and powerful, and the human situation is deep and moving, which shows the poet's retrospection, inquiry and exploration of the meaning of life in the history of the individual mind. The poet writes about the fatigue, compromise, and reflection of people in middle age, and also writes about the common state of life of ordinary people in time and space. This is the evaluation of the organizing committee on the group poem "Ciqikou"
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Guma 'Xi Xue', published in the first half of the second issue of Poetry Journal in 2020. "It has made useful progress in the balance between the defamiliarization of language and the daily expression, and this balance ability comes from the thick cultural support and long-term sense of innovation." The group poetry has a unique sense of language, imagery and rhythm, the way of advancement is unexpected, the writing of the region and beyond the region, the details are vivid, and the meaning is far-reaching. This is the organizing committee's comment on the ancient horse", "Xi Xue" group poem.
Zheng Xiaoqiong's "Pearl" was published in the "Phalanx" column of the first half of October 2020 of poetry journal. Zheng Xiaoqiong's group poem "Pearl" uses rich brushstrokes to write about the state of the wandering migrant worker group, which is real and vivid, and goes deep into the bone marrow. Away from the front-line worker position for many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong still persistently pays attention to the same female workers as she once was, and constantly goes to the front line to contact female workers and experience the warmth of their lives. This is the evaluation of the organizing committee for Zheng Xiaoqiong's poem "Pearl".
What about these poems? We,the "fools," are not easy to talk about. It's not a bad read, but it's hard for the average person like me to feel good. However, at least one thing, the winning works of the 2020 Poetry Journal Annual Awards were at least published in 2020, unlike last year's 2019 Annual Awards, some of the winning works were only published in 2020.
Guma (image from the Internet)
Another point, let's look at the "titles" of these award-winning poets. Gu Ma is the vice chairman of the Gansu Writers Association, and Xiong Yan is the chairman of the Chengdu Writers Association and the executive editor of Caotang. Zheng Xiaoqiong was originally a "migrant poet", but now she is also the vice president of Works magazine. I don't know if the "bare" poet without any title can win the prize?
Of course, these award-winning poets all have "titles", which may also be a sign that their poems are well written. The reason why they have titles is because the poems are well written. And it is precisely because their poems are well written that they can be published in the Poetry Journal and can win the annual award. Isn't this a "virtuous circle"? The links are interlocked and tight.
Xiong Yan (Image from the Internet)
Some time ago, the "Sixth China Long Poetry Award", which was in full swing, included a winner Shi Shiran, but it seems that there is no title. Doesn't this prove that poets without titles can also win prizes? oh! When I think about it, Shi Shiran is the editor-in-chief of "Selected Chinese Women Poets", and he can also be regarded as having a title.
And we now have a lot of poetry awards, there are poetry festivals in various places, and various publications have annual awards in various publications. At the end of the year, the rain and dew are all wet, and the poets with titles are full of harvest and get what they deserve. If you don't have any title, you can wear a hat of "famous poet" and everyone is happy. Let's continue to work next year!
Zheng Xiaoqiong (image from the Internet)
To the question of "how to look at the mushrooming of poetry awards today", GuMa replied: "Poetry awards are very good and motivate creation. 'A hundred years of song self-suffering, the end of the sight of the voice', Du Fu lonely and bitter, also need encouragement. A good poetry award should be inclusive, open-minded, eclectic, and outstanding in selection, and requires judges to have a professional standard of judgment and a fair and just conscience and literary ethics. ”