Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency is available from BOA Editions & from Bloodaxe Books (UK)
+ check out the audiobook at the link above

Explodingly Yours is available from Ghost City Press

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, read by yours truly. & here’s a link to the google play site, where it’s also available. for more options, go here

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Expedition Press original letterpress print

limited edition chapbook featuring poems by Saltonstall residency alumni

thanks to Electric Lit for publishing this interview with Charif Shanahan on his remarkable second book, Trace Evidence

thanks to this year’s judges of the Forward Prizes for selecting this poem as Highly Commended & for including it in the Forward Book of Poetry 2024

my third & final post as a featured blogger is this short essay on the use of humor in Justin Chin’s work

thanks to jojo Lazar for writing this beautiful piece about my book & to ANMLY for publishing it

+ a second new poem, “Quintessence: to Queer” and a third, “Personal Pizza Personal Poem”

+ a second new poem, “recipe for lifelong homosexuality.” many thanks to digital editor Leisa Loan for asking me to contribute

my second post as a featured blogger is this short essay on the use of humor in Mary Ruefle’s work

click to read “ode to the gayest part of me,” “End of September,” & “nature facts.” many thanks to the editors

published as part of Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week series. thanks to Literary Arts Programs Director Gowri Koneswaran for asking me to contribute

thanks to Shelby Edison for writing this beautiful, moving essay about my book—with the delightful title, “The Ice Cream Sandwich Connoisseur: Chen Chen’s Poetry and Queer Texan Identity”

thanks to managing editor Mimi Kusch for asking me to contribute. a second new poem will appear in Narrative later this year

my first post as a featured blogger is this short essay on the use of humor in Sarah Gambito’s work

thanks to editor Rebecca Lehmann for publishing “i love you” & “i hate you” in issue 4

thanks to Connie Pan for recommending When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities for Book Riot in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month

thanks to everyone who voted in this “Best of Rochester” 2023 poll for Rochester’s CITY Magazine

thanks to alice hiller for reviewing my book for The Poetry Review, alongside Paul Tran’s work

thanks to rob mclennan for reviewing my book for periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics

thanks to Nick Schenkel, director of the West Lafayette Public Library, for reviewing my book for WBAA

thanks to SK Grout for reviewing my book for The Alchemy Spoon, alongside work by Roy McFarlane & Golnoosh Noor

thanks to A. Tony Jerome for recommending my new chapbook, Explodingly Yours, in this article for Autostraddle

“The School of Night & Hyphens” has been reprinted, along with a new craft/process essay, in this anthology edited by William Walsh

“i love you to the moon &” has been reprinted in this anthology by poets.org

“I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” has been reprinted in this UK anthology edited by Andrew McMillan & Mary Jean Chan

check out the entire issue here

thanks to Ryan Collins at A24 and to directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

you can read my other new poem, “Quintessence: the Caffeinated” and the entire issue of Peripheries here

“Fellow poet J.A. Dela Cruz-Smith interviews Chen Chen about his latest book, inheriting his mom’s fashion sense, and the beauty of a musky armpit”

thanks to John Compton for curating

thanks to the Electric Lit staff for writing about Your Emergency Contact…

thanks to Connie Pan for writing about Your Emergency Contact…

thanks to Craig Morgan Teicher for writing about Your Emergency Contact…

thanks to Stephanie Burt for writing about Your Emergency Contact…

thanks to curator Mary Savig for writing about Your Emergency Contact…

with thanks to Jessica Wang for covering this event

with thanks to interviewer Peter Riehl

“What Is the More Complicated Truth I’m Not Facing?”: A Conversation with Chen Chen on Vulnerability. with thanks to interviewer Joanna Acevedo

with thanks to interviewers Ray Brunt & Courtney Harler

to order a copy of & Change, please mail $3.00 to 54 Central Avenue, Apt. B, Dover, NH 03820 along with a note which includes your name and your mailing address. + more info

+ an interview about my new book, conducted by editor Joe Carrick-Varty

to read more about the USA fellowships & fellows, go here.

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