Chen Chen (poet)
Chen Chen | |
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Born | Xiamen, China | March 9, 1989
Education | Hampshire College (B.A.) Syracuse University (M.F.A.) Texas Tech University (Ph.D.) |
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Chen Chen (Chinese: 陳琛; pinyin: Chén Chēn, born March 9, 1989) is an American poet.[1] His book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry.[2] Chen serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.[3] He served as Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University from 2018-2022.
Life
Chen was born in
His work has appeared in Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, Drunken Boat, Best of the Net, The Best American Poetry, The Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. He has served as a poetry editor for Salt Hill Journal, and currently serves as editor-in-chief of Underblong and managing editor for Iron Horse Review.[5] He also edits "the lickety split", a Twitter-based journal that "only publishes poems that fit in a single tweet",[6] alongside his fictional assistant editor Gudetama the Egg.[7]
Awards and fellowships
- 2014 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize[8]
- 2014 New Delta Review's Matt Clark Award in Poetry
- 2015 Finalist, Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships[9]
- 2016 Kundiman Fellow
- 2017 Longlisted, National Book Award
- 2018 Finalist, Lambda Literary Awardfor Gay Poetry
- 2018 Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award
- 2018 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
- 2019 Pushcart Prize
- 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature
Books
- Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)[10]
- Kissing the Sphinx (Two of Cups Press, 2016)[11]
- When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities (New York: BOA Editions, 2017)[3][12][13]
- Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (New York: BOA Editions, September 2022) [3]
- Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023)[14]
In anthology
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)[15]
References
- Out magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
- ^ a b c d "Full Bio". chenchenwrites.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ "Conversations with Contributors: Chen Chen (Poetry)". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ "Infoxicated Corner: Interview with Chen Chen". The poetry blog. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ "[a mango from the neighbor's tree] — a poem for the lickety~split".
- ^ "The Lickety Split". Twitter. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ "Chen Chen". BOA Editions, Ltd. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ "2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Winners Announced". Poetry Foundation. 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ "Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen". The Rumpus.net. March 11, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
- ^ "Kissing the Sphinx". porkbellypress.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ Teicher, Craig Morgan (February 8, 2017). "Poetry To Pay Attention To: A Preview Of 2017's Best Verse". NPR News. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ Lewis, Michelle (April 11, 2017). "WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES: A review of Chen Chen's debut poetry…". Medium. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ "Explodingly Yours". Ghost City Press. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "UGA Press View Book". www.ugapress.org. Retrieved October 3, 2018.