我国当代杰出诗人、作家雷抒雁同志,于2013年2月14日凌晨1时31分,因病医治无效,在北京协和医院去世。雷抒雁同志1962年至1968年就读于西北大学中文系。曾任《诗刊》社副主编、鲁迅文学院常务副院长、中国作家协会全国委员会委员。2012年4月25日在中国诗歌学会第三次全国会员代表大会上当选为会长。雷抒雁同志出版有诗集《沙海军歌》、《漫长的边境线》、 Comrade Lei Shuyan, an outstanding Chinese contemporary poet and author, died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital at 1:31 a.m. on February 14, 2013, after his invalid medical treatment. Lei Shuyan comrades from 1962 to 1968 studied at the Department of Chinese at Northwestern University. Former “Poetry” Associate editor, executive vice president of Lu Xun College of literature, Chinese Writers Association National Committee. April 25, 2012 was elected president of the third national congress of Chinese Poetry Society. Comrade Lei Shuyan published a collection of poems “the Song of the sand”, “long border line”