Nyein Way(Maung Maung Thein) Biography

a poet, multi-disciplinary artist
(who started absrract painting in his university youth years and restarted abstract-text paintings in his 50s, especially focused at 59) , post-conceptual, post-contemporary, research-based poetics of theorectical poetry and theopoetics, contemporary philosophy, psychology, and art of poetic wisdom and art of poetic technique and method in the 21st century's multi-cultural
phenomena and experimental writer/a text-based artist and educator, who knows the staggering gaps in the zone of poetry as the arts and culture continuum by trying to use htayrawada buddhism Pathana Texts-24- ways of causes and effects in human circles of life as wisdom, emptiness from the concept of htayrawada buddhism as no ego or no self
and no ego's possessivesness in
happeningness of life forms and essence of life situation, contemporary philosophy, contemporary psychology, zen buddhism, ethics, aesthetics, neuroaesthetics and bridges of humanity in culturalanthropology and anthropological pssychology by means of simplicities of post-representational styles of post-conceptual poetics in the 21st century and post-contemporay poetry in the 21sy century [may./7/2014]
Date of Birth: January 19,1962
Real Name: Mr.Maung Maung Thein or Mr.Maung Thein
Pen Name: Nyein Way/? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is not spelt like? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ; There can have another poet with the name Nyein Wai or nyein way: be careful! ! ! ! ! !
Education: B.A. English, Post-graduate Diploma
in English Language Teaching, Cambridge Certicate in ELT CEELT Level 2
Publications:
1 An anthology of poems within 20 years named'Words
and Tree' in 2005
2 An educational book'Classroomology' in 1999
3 Video art: Isolated Sports in 2005
shown in poetry workshop and poetry reading at Gitameit Music Institute's ''New Diections Programme '' in 2005 in Yangon
: 2 " CIRCUITS" in 2010, shown in Wathan Film Festival, YANGON, MYANMAR in 2017.
4 A Poetics Book 'Conceptual Poetics and A Contemporary poet'
in August,2009.
5 YouTube - IG2BA Unilateral Culture Exchange - DAN KWONG & NYEIN WAY

2 min 13 sec - 24 Apr 2009
Dance excerpt from 'IT'S GREAT 2B AMERICAN', performed Nov. '08, LA Theater Center. Text by Burmese poet Nyein Way. Camera - Mark...
www.youtube.com/watch? v=TC-4nv0xwBA - Related videos
6 GA GA NA NA-a post-conceptual and text-based artwork'
is published in october,2010.
7 ''Anamataga'', an experimebtaland postconceprual poetey book in 2012.
8 ''Biopsy Of Silence'', Wittgenstein's Lab 1962-2063
in 2016, an experimental poetry book.
9 99-RIVERS: the 21st cenrury new world poetics, an experimental powtry book on essay-poem in 2017.
10 " TOTAL POETRY" , an experimental powtry book in 2015.
11 " A POSTCONCEPTUAL DICTIONARY: a biligual book, an experimental poetry book structuring all definitions of words as one long poem.
12 Biopsy Of Silence 2016
13 99~RIVERS; the 21st century new world poetics Feb,2017
14 In the anthology of asia~pacific writings" The Near And The Far" 2016 by SCRIBE PUBLICATION, London and Austrakia.
15 A Little Bamboo Bridge 2018, Kabanaryeegyi Publishing House, Yangon, Myanmar.
16 Key 2018, Kabanaryeegyi Publishing House, Yangon, Myanmar.

Educational aims of Q.E.L.C. Language Centr.
He is a buddhist, practising vipassana meditation everday.His parents are debout buddhists of hayrawarda buddhism and so he is a buddhist since his childhood.He reads dufferent kinds of books but his most interesting subject is hayrawarda buddhism.

He wants to help kids to think for themselves in a critical and
humanistic way through teaching English as a second or foreign
language.His greatest aim is to make kids know that education is life
long learning and having an informed choice in a critical
attitude, reflecting their own experiences and others' experiences and
opinions-learing by doing things and learning by critically
interactive with others, experssing their own opinions, building up self
esteem in the learning community and existing society. I want to know more about how
developed countries are building up educational community compared to
a country like Myanmar and from that educational and international
experiences, he can have more energy to build up, i would say, a
democrative, open and critical community through the classroom and reflecting and contemplating on
daily experiences.
He woyld like to train teachers to be more effective and critical for the
community they work for, too.
So he had also given educational workshops for teachers for
English at British Council and American centre workshops since 1999.
He had done some poetry readings and performances for some schools
in Yangon such as international school yangon and alliance francaise, Yangon.

About Nyein Way's poems: All his poems are about the bridges alternative realities are wired.When the basic humanities are fragmented in any situations, realities are multifaceted beings and poetry is made through life as bridges for peace, humanity and intellectual growth.

He said, '' I never write poems under the category 'Politics and my poems are being and becoming apolitical, astronomical and apoetic ones, crossing many a boundaries in the arts and culture zone as a a cuttibg~
edge one, postconceptual balance of life, intelligence & multtude in time of peace, harmony & wisdom.

Inspirations: Gertrude Stein, Beckett, John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Zukofsky, Frank O'hara, Charles Bernstein Kenneth Goldsmith, ancient asian poets and poetics, Htayrawada buddhism's Pathana texts which manifest 24 machineries existing and connecting to reveal causes and effects and to self-realize the conceptual liberation and to knoe and to reflect conceptualization process, any cartoons and animated characters and children literature and everyday life of ordinary people
.He loves reading and books are his friends for his life long education programme.He reads different kinds of good books for integrated wisdom.

He had helped British poet Ruth Padel to make meeting with Myanmar poets and translated some of her favourite poems from different countries when she visted Myanmar in 2002
gave poetry workshops both inside and outside the country Myanmar -American Centre, Alliance Francaise, art centers, international schools and Gitameit music centre participated in the Mekong project artists-in-residency programme in Phenom Penh, Cambodia in Nov,2004, together with artists from Mekong region
made collaborative performances with artists from USA, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, China, Vietnam, Finland, Hongkong
made NIGHT, MOON, DANCE performance with international artists based on his Trilogy poem'night, moon dance'
a contributor of an article about Myanmar theatre for the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre published by Greenwood Publishing House, NYC which have got the best reference book award by the American Library Association in 2008.

He performed ''Sky Poem'' poetry work with improvised texts in ''1st Beyond Pressure International Performance Festival held in Yangon, Myanmar in 2008.
One of his poems was published in the 'THE' literary magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the United Stated of America in July,2008.Make poetry reading events in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and Malibu, Los Angeles, California, USA in June,2008.
One of his poems he wrote during his one-month long stay in 18th street arts center, Santamonica, Los Angeles, California was used in multi-media artist Dan Kwong's Performance 'It's great 2B an American' in June,2008 at highway performance center at 18th street arts center.
He has Read poetry with performance, collaborating with dancers, singers and musicians from New York, Beijing, Thailand and Germany in the multimedia performance sponsored by Asian Cultural Council at Gitameit Music center, Yangon in December,2008.Made poetry reading with performance at International Performance Festival'BEYOND PRESSURE'together with international artists from Canada, Malaysia, Korea and Vietnam and read a paper on 'Artists Communities in Myanmar' in December,2008.
He read poetry at the most famous theatre troupe in Myanmar'Shwe Man Chan Tha theatre troupe at Independence Day Festival in the football field of Hlaing Township, Yangon, collaborating with the performance 'Philosophy Tree'.
Having read the poem 'Clay Revolution' together with musians; Kit Young USA, Dephanie Germany and performance artists; Myat Kyawt & Daw Htay Htay at 'Tribute to singer Htoo Ein Thin'at Gitameit music center, Yangon Myanmar on August 14,2009.Read the poem'Next Window To Puppet City' at NEXT WINDOW art exbition held at Lawkanat Art Gallery, Yangon on August 28,2009.
Read POetry with performance'VICTORY' on September 25,2009 at 'Natural &environmental art exibition' at Lokanat art gallery, Yangon, Myanmar.
Make a performance piece'Back To Dream' at New Zero Art Space, Yangon on Oct 28,2009.
Make poetry reading and improvising poetry as a narrator in multi-disciplinary performance of the story 'FOUR PUPPETS' at 'Master Class in Asian Puppetry', collaborating with puppeteers, musicians, directors from USA, Thailand, Myanmar and Germany at Empty Space Chiangmai ESC in Chiangmai, Thailand, Bangkok Culture and Art Centre in Bangkok on Jan 15, Jan 16 and Jan 20,2010.
Make performance art'CIRCUITS' with collage poetry and improvosational text by Nyein Way, Matin Heidegger being and time, Craige Dworking Strand and Caroline Bergvall, on February 7,2010 at Lokanat Gallery, Yangon.
Show text-based artwork 'MAHAJANAKA-CIRCUIT PAGE TWO' and read the translation poem of Arthur Sze's Before Completion 1989 jsjustaposed with Artist Chan Aye's Art work Untitled Light boxes at 'Crossing Borders' Myanmar Contemporary art movement at lokanat gallery, Yangon from Aug 30 to September 3,2010.
On December 28 &31, he read and performed combination and rummagings of poems titled 'TRUTH BANKS' at action painting festival held at Dagaung Art Gallery in Yangon, Myanmar.
He had attended IRRAWADDY LITERARY FESTIVAL ILF in Yangon, Myanmar and had given talks and poetry readings since the first one in 2013.
He was rewarded a WrICE residency programme in Hoinn and Hanoi Vietnam and Melbourne, Australia by WRICE PROGRAMMES in 2015.In the same year he had attended Melbourne Writers Festival MWF.
His poems were published in international journels and magazines such as ''tripewire(USA) , Rabbit(Australia) ...etc.
Some of his writing''99-Rivers: a 21st century postconceptual poetry book, conceptual liberation in the 21st century...etc''
One of his writing''Treaty Of Poetry'' published in the book''Near And Far'' by Scribe Publication.

He established ''Kabanaryeegyi Publiahing House' in Yangon, Myanmar.

He has been living together with his family, teaching English and practising vipassana meditation daily at home in Yangon, Myanmar.

He has been running an English Language School.

websites:
ubu.com/contemp/
wikipedia
poemhunter.com/nyein_way
academia.edu.au
wrice writers programme