Buttonhook Press Pamphlet Series
Poetry: All forms & styles
A Writer’s Portfolio
JIANQING ZHENG
MAMA’S SONG
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Made available online and/or printed in the USA and elsewhere as a novelty and commemorative document celebrating the poetic works of Jianqing Zheng.
This project was made possible, in part, through support from
Richard Stimac and his new book BLOOD, WATER, AND STONE
available now from Spartan Press.
About the writer:
IANQING ZHENG’s poetry collections include Dreaminations, Visual Chords, The Dog Years of Reeducation, A Way of Looking, Enforced Rustication in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, The Landscape of Mind, Delta Sun, Just Looking, and Delta Notes. His poetry awards include three Mississippi Arts Commission’s poetry fellowships, the Gerald Cable Book Prize, and the winner of the Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition and of Georgetown Review Poetry Competition.
Image: Midnight Session at the Lenox. (AI-assisted digital image) by O:JA&L staff creative. 2026. Public domain via MidJourney AI.
Other work by Jianqing Zheng available at O:JA&L:
Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles||JIANQING ZHENG|”GARDEN”
Mixed Forms: Tanka Prose||Jianqing Zheng|”THE DREAM SONG TO THE COMPS”
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Jianqing Zheng|”Delta Notes”
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