‘There’s always a tension in trying to understand’: get to know student poet Zihan Zhang ’25.5 - The Brown Daily Herald

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‘There’s always a tension in trying to understand’: get to know student poet Zihan Zhang ’25.5 - The Brown Daily Herald

This article is part of a National Poetry Month series featuring student poets at Brown.Zhang started writing classical Chinese poetry in elementary school. Since then, she has been experimenting with different forms and themes within the genre."In high school, I started to do English and bilingual poetry where I have different personas: I'm a bit redundant and use big words in Chinese, but I'm more attentive to instant feelings in English," she…