Pamela Pan is the author of Tasting Moments (Finishing Line Press), a poetry collection that captures small yet powerful moments, celebrating memory, family, resilience, and love’s healing strength. She is an English professor and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California. Her story “Baba’s Accordion” was published in California Writers Club’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Vision and Verse, Center of Attention, and The Fire Within. Her articles “Turning Family History into a Historical Novel” and “Finding the Soul of a Place” are featured on the Historical Novel Society North America website.
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Pamela’s poetic pitch and tonality remind us of the connection between love and home, a teacher’s guidance, bonds forged between classmates, the sacrifice of laborers who gave up their youth for their country’s dreams. Her poems about her mother in “Regrets of a Dandelion Seed,” “Mama’s Hujian,” and “Wonton Soup” are crafted like beautiful love letters. In other poems Pamela confronts the ravages of time and posits that we survive what life throws us like orchids withstanding wildfire. She asks why time carves some of us more deeply than others, suggesting the blade of time is no match for “Those whose rivers never slow, never pool or stagnate, who dive deep for glinting words, scale the banks for fresh perspective…” and concludes, “Even the sharpest blade of time grows dull against a current that will not be still…” Pamela’s poems are to be read and savored, and read again.
–Linda Drattell, award-winning poet and author of Remember this Day and The Lighter Side of Horse Manure.
Pamela Pan has done it again. In this stunning new collection, the people in her life become friends and family of your own. Within these pages, you feel each person’s pain, heartache, resilience, and growth, as if you’ve known them forever.Through brilliantly crafted verses, she transports readers to distant places that linger in the mind’s eye like a vivid dream. This is a journey that demands a quiet corner, a cup of tea, and a box of tissues. Prepare to be moved by a voice that understands the deepest corners of the human heart.
–Monique Rardin Richardson Poet and author of The Evolution of My Smile and Pieces of Me.
In her second collection of poetry, Pamela Pan weaves self-awareness into ballads of hope and happiness. “I am wrapped in a world spun from syllables to sing verses only I know.” Through life’s stages as a daughter, mother, and teacher, she learned “love could be exhaustion” and “joy could live inside bone-deep weariness.” The ravishing details and powerful images also speak to the universal experience of confronting adversity. “Even on the darkest days I flick regrets from my wings.” And when “I push through the clouds again, to soar in the hope-lit sky,” the reader cheers her on.
–Constance Hanstedt, Author of Don’t Leave Yet, How My Mother’s Alzheimer’s Opened My Heart and Treading Water
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