Poet  (September 3, 1936 AD)

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为义
Township：	广东潮阳
Birth Place：	台湾台中市
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William Marr was born in 1936 and educated in Taiwan. He came to the United States in 1961 and received his master's degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University in 1963 and his Ph. D. degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1969. Recently, he took early retirement from Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago after twenty seven years of energy research to pursue his true passions -- poetry and visual arts.
Under the pseudonym of Fei Ma, he is widely considered one of the world's best contemporary poets writing in Chinese. His poetry has enjoyed wide readership in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, mainland China, and in the United States. He is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry (all written in Chinese except Autumn Window which is in English) and a book of essays. He has translated the works of many contemporary American and European poets into Chinese and has received numerous awards, including three from Taiwan for his poetry and translations. Some of his poems have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Hebrew, German, Spanish, Slavic and Romanian, and have appeared in over one hundred anthologies. He has also edited and published several anthologies of contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese poetry. He is a past president of the Illinois State Poetry Society, a member of Chicago Poets' Club, and a member of the Advisory Board of the journal of North American Maple.
Besides his writing and translation work, he has also actively pursued other artistic endeavors such as oil painting and sculpture. He has held several solo and group art exhibitions in Chicago since 1994.