外卖诗人走进高校：我们需要仰起头来看天空
双语君约 5 分钟Wang Jibing, a food delivery rider in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, has written over 6,000 poems in the gaps between orders. One of his poems went viral in 2022, earning him the nickname "the delivery driver poet".
In July 2026, he won the 9th Lu Xun Literary Prize for Poetry with his collection Low Flight, becoming the first delivery rider to receive the award.
Wang said he has no wish to be a blacksmith forging blades. He would rather be a cotton picker in the human world, gathering life's soft, warm fragments and stitching them into a patchwork robe for readers.
In an age of fragmented information, Wang still trusts in the power of words. "Words are an eternal starry sky," he said. "The stars have always been there. We need more people to look up."
When life offers a cliff, he becomes a waterfall. When rocks block the way, he becomes the spray. The hardships life has dealt him have all become, in his writing, a force that keeps moving forward.
Zhang Xiaoqin, a professor at Renmin University of China's School of Liberal Arts, noted that Wang's work carries a distinct originality and imagination, embedding reflections on existence and compassion for life within everyday writing.
His language has a naturally metallic toughness and sheen, yet it never loses its warmth and affection for the world — like cotton concealing a blade's edge: gentle and powerful, Zhang said.
Zhang Yangjuanyuan, an undergraduate in the university's School of Journalism and Communication, was struck by Wang's optimistic line: "However much snow life gives me, I will meet that many springs".
"Literature is not decoration for him — it is the strength that helps him carry life and keep going," she said. "That is inspiring for me as a freshman, and it makes me want to keep thinking and pursuing as I search for answers."
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