Ye Hui

Ye Hui is an acclaimed Chinese metaphysical poet who lives in Nanjing. His poems in English translation have appeared or are forthcoming in 128 Lit, The Arkansas International, Asymptote, Bennington Review, Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Circumference, Copihue Poetry, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, Poetry magazine, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, and Zócalo Public Square. The English full-length translation of his latest collection, The Ruins, was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and is forthcoming from Deep Vellum in November 2025.

Four poems from The Ruins by Ye Hui, translated by Dong Li.

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