When Yang was a senior at Hualien High School, Chen Chin-piao, a recent graduate, gave him a copy of the Kung Lun Pao newspaper's Blue Stars Poetry Quarterly to read. Soon Yang was publishing poems in Blue Stars under the pseudonym Yeh Shan. He was only 16.
花蓮中學 3 年級時，學長陳錦標拿「公論報」的〈藍星〉詩刊給他看，不久藍星即登出他以「葉珊」為筆名的詩作，那年他才 16 歲。