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2020 reflection

time is a bogus construct, in particular calendar time, but i do want to spend some time today reflecting on what i've done this year…

Chen ChenJanuary 1, 20212020, List, Teaching, Collaboration, Fidgety Puddings, Mag Gabbert, Sam Herschel Wein, Zine, Improv, Boy Luck Club, Pao Arts Center, Blurbing, Sweaters, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review, Hobart, Orion Magazine, The Cortland Review, The Familiar Wild, The Map of Every Lilac Leaf, Smith College, Smith College Poetry Center, Smith College Museum of Art, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic poetry, Underblong, Poets & Writers, The Margins, Fiction, Flash fiction, Victoria Chang, Obit, Electric Lit, New York Times, Muriel Leung, Zoom, Jeffrey Bean, Reading, Reading series, Luther Hughes, Raina Leon, Torrin A. Greathouse, George Abraham, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Tyler Tsay, Movies, Dear Ex, SOTUS the series, Sailor Moon, Craft essay, Personal essay, Personal, Andrew Thomas Huang, Nina Mingya Powles, Jenny Odell, Aeon Ginsberg, Gregory Kan, The Forward Prizes, Interview, Lantern Review, Mass Poetry, Paula Champagne, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party, Poetry Unbound, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Reflection, Cassandra de Alba, Albert Lee, Juliette Givhan, Angelina Mazza, Aerik Francis, E Yeon Chang, Emma William-Margaret Rebholz aka Billy, Community, Editing, 2021

poems that let you in like a dear friend

i love those poems that let you in like a dear friend but also like someone who needs to learn something important and challenging, like someone who needs to grow…

Chen ChenSeptember 3, 2020Love, Friendship, Growth, Listener, Reader, Speaker, Another, Activation, Company, Personal

on academia, teaching, work, & independence

thinking about my future in academia. on the one hand, i love working with students. and on the other, so much hoop jumping…

Chen ChenAugust 25, 2020Academia, Teaching, Community, Twitter, Personal, Reflection, The Nap Ministry, Pandemic

art is political, always

not surprised but still angry whenever i see someone demand that artists just “stay out of politics.” first of all, art, like everything else, exists in a political system. and, art that claims to be apolitical is making a political claim…