Yi Wei

Yi Wei is a first-generation Chinese writer and visual artist unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Outside institutional spaces, Yi has organized dozens of community art workshops and gatherings that work across hybrid forms, printmaking, and ecopoetry. Her work has been awarded the Frontier OPEN Prize, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, and the Writer in the Public Schools Fellowship at NYU. She can be found at anarchist-run Radix Printing & Publishing Cooperative. (Source)

Poems by Yi Wei

Song by Yi Wei

February 5, 2025

“I want you / to live long, grief, your song, grief, what a beautiful sort of wrong / grief.” — Yi Wei

Poems curated by Yi Wei

Revolutionary Letter #80 by Diane di Prima

August 19, 2025

“It’s terrorism when you’re forbidden to speak yr language / paddled for it, made to run a hundred laps in the snow / in your thin & holey sneakers.” — Diane di Prima