William Weiyi Marr is a Chinese-American poet who has published 21 volumes of poetry (two in English, the rest in Chinese) , two books of essays and several books of translations. His poems are included in over one hundred anthologies, ranging from high school and college literary textbooks to special collections, including 300 Best New Poems 1917-1995, published in Taiwan, and 300 Best Chinese New Poems, published in China. Some of his poems have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also edited and published several anthologies of Chinese and Taiwanese modern poetry. A former president of the Illinois State Poetry Society, he is a scientist by profession and has lived in the Chicago area since 1970.

William Weiyi Marr's Works:

Poetry Books in English:
Autumn Window, Arbor Hill Press, Chicago,1995(1st Ed.) ,1996 (2nd Ed.)
Between Heaven And Earth, PublishAmerica, Baltimore,2010

Poetry books in Chinese (published under the Pseudonym Fei Ma) :
1. In the Windy City, Chinese/English, Li Poetry Society, Taipei, Taiwan,1975
2. Selected Poems of William Marr, Taiwan Commercial Press, Taipei, Taiwan,1983
3. The White Horse, Times Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan,1984
4. Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Joint Publishing, Hong Kong,1984
5. The Resounding Echoes of Hoof Beats, Li Poetry Society, Taipei, Taiwan,1986
6. Road, Elite Publishing Co., Taipei, Taiwan,1986
7. Anthology of Short Poems by Fei Ma, Strait Art Publishing House, Fuzhou, China,1990
8. Fly! Spirit, Morning Star Publishing Co., Taichung, Taiwan,1992
9. Anthology of Self-selected poems by Fei Ma, Guizhou People's Press,1993
10. The Microscopic World, Taichung Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan,1998
11. The Poetic Art of Fei Ma, Writers Publishing House, Beijing, China,1999
12. Not All Flowers Need to Produce Fruits, Bookman Books Co., Taipei, Taiwan,1999
13. Poems of Fei Ma, Flower City Publishing House, Guangzhou, China,2000
14. Selected Poems of William Marr, The Milky Way Publishing Co., Hong Kong,2003
15. Anthology of Poems by Fei Ma, National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Tainan, Taiwan,2009
16. You Are the Wind, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol.1 (1950-1979) , Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan,2011
17. Dream Design, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol.2 (1980-1989) , Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan,2011
18. The World of Grasshoppers, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol.3 (1990-1999) , Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan,2012
19. The Sunshine Scarf, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol.4 (2000-2012) , Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan,2012

Prose Books:
1. The Awakening of Worldly Desires, Flower City Publishing House, Guangzhou, China,2005
2. Will Never Write A Dirge for A Dead Cat, Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan,2011

Edited anthologies:
1. Anthology of Gu Cheng's Poems, New Land Literature, Taipei, Taiwan,1988
2. Forty Contemporary Poets From Taiwan, People's Literature Publishing House, Beijing, China,1989
3. Anthology Of Misty Poems, New Land Literature, Taipei, Taiwan,1989
4. Taiwanese modern poetry, Literary Publishing House, Hong Kong,1991
5. Taiwan Poetry Anthology, Flower City Publishing House, Guangzhou, China,1991

Books of Translations:
1. Poems of Jacques Prevert, Big Stage Press, Kaohsiung, Taiwan,1978
2. Let the Feast Begin - My Favorite English Poems, Bookman Books Co., Taipei,1999

William Weiyi Marr Poems

• April Fools' Day
  April arrived with a message on my desk “Call Mr. Lyon— Urgent! ! ! ”
• An Easter Surprise
  Lying magnificently in the nest the two blue eggs, still radiant with the mother’s warmth must have been hidden by God
• Spring’s First Dandelion
  It most likely was blown here last fall, from some faraway place an immigrant of a sort yet it now produces
• Vietnam War Memorial
  A block of marble and twenty six letters of the alphabet etch so many young names onto history
• Picasso Died This Morning
  After frittering away the remaining afternoon I walk up to the window many times to see if the sky holds any last surprise
• Sharing An Umbrella
  Sharing an umbrella I suddenly realize the difference between us Yet bending over to kiss you
• Last Life
  Roaming somewhere in the universe a clang from an anvil or a hollow resonance from the woods is yet to reach me
• Night Cruise On Lake Michigan
  Standing on top of a skyscraper one can no doubt pick the stars with ease yet from here it seems more likely that the stars descend from the sky themselves
• Space Incarnation
  Many would take it as the midway station to heaven nineteen hundred miles up can heaven be far away?
• Chicago Serenade
  Evening a desolate street A car with its windows tightly rolled up