Khin Aung Aye

Khin Aung Aye was born in 1956 in Rangoon where he was raised and attended the university. He has published 11 collections of poetry, which include collaborations with leading poets and translators from Burma, like Zeyar Lynn and his own cousin and early teacher Maw Rousseau. Time Train from the World’s Shore was his first book and his early collections reveal a somewhat more traditional approach to poetry—exemplified by four-syllable metered verse—steadily becoming more


Articles by Khin Aung Aye

World Voices Festival
Thursday March 28

State of Unhappiness Das Kapital

are you coughing now? do you / feel a dull pain in the chest when you breathe deeply? can you still broadcast although / disgruntled that you’d die for your beloved country? if so what will God say? has / God gone dumb having lost at dice?