( KUO HAO ) Art Space is honored to have been invited by OōEli Tsutaya Books to bring the first season of ( To Write A Poem By Clock-in ), originally launched five years ago, to Hangzhou as part of The 1st Road Poetry Festival.

Initiated by artist Chen Fenwan, ( To Write A Poem By Clock-in ) is an ongoing participatory project that introduces a game-like structure reminiscent of clocking in at work, encouraging people to remain curious and embrace chance within everyday life.

Echoing the festival’s aim to “read the city,” the project responds to those overlooked street-side phenomena and fleeting moments that quietly shape our daily experience.

The poems from Season One began as a game of assembling words. Starting from seemingly unrelated vocabulary, participants experimented with linking phrases into poems, disrupting conventional poetic logic and opening up unexpected possibilities of expression.

They are flashes of inspiration cast at random—simultaneously absurd in their disorder and poetic in their surprise.

( To Write A Poem By Clock-in ) remains an ongoing project, and we look forward to meeting audiences again.

Poets, happy creating!

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Images courtesy of OōEli Tsutaya Books

- Special Thanks

Authorized Poets: Chen Fenwan, Zefeng, Zefan, Xigua, Guanguan, Ajun, Xixi, Meiyi, Li Qing, Qiangwei, Xu Dan, Zhang Yuan, Liu Ye, Haoxuan, Xiaoxiao, Feifei, and Daya.