{"id":5788,"date":"2025-12-01T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=5788"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:02:52","slug":"howlin-zheng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/fall-2025-digital-lit\/howlin-zheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Howlin’ Wolf \u2014 Jianqing Zheng \u2014 Fall 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Untitled by Jack Bordnick<\/p><\/div>\n

Howlin’ Wolf<\/h1>\n

Jianqing Zheng<\/p>\n

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blues festival<\/p>\n

Howlin\u2019 Wolf\u2019s
\nwang dang doodle
\nboomeranging<\/p>\n

in a somersault
\nall street long<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

harvest moon<\/p>\n

Wolf leaps
\noff the mural
\nfor a soulful dance<\/p>\n

until his howl
\nwears down into wind<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

night wind<\/p>\n

a bluesy blow
\nof Howlin\u2019s
\nharmonica<\/p>\n

as I drive past
\nWest Point, Mississippi<\/p>\n

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Jianqing Zheng<\/b>‘s poetry books include <\/span>Visual Chords<\/span><\/i> (Broken Tribe Press 2025), <\/span>The Dog Years of Reeducation<\/span><\/i> (Madville 2023), and <\/span>A Way of Looking<\/span><\/i> (Silverfish Review Press 2021. A recipient of three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Zheng teaches at Mississippi Valley State University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Bordnick<\/b>\u2019s interest is to create artistic, meaningful works of art that can be enjoyed by all peoples and cultures.\u2028Being a designer and sculptor has allowed him to share his professional experiences in a beneficial way for both business and community projects of this nature. He has been a successful designer and has over twenty years experience in design, fabrication and installation of numerous and diverse projects of this nature as an Industrial design\/Sculptor graduate of Pratt Institute in New York, where he had his own professional design business and been a design director for numerous companies and local government projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

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