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Teach This Poem - Poets.org

The title poem from my book was recently the Teach This Poem of the week over on Poets.org…

Chen ChenAugust 30, 2019Teach This Poem, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, Teaching, My poems, My book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Love Poems

I love love poems—reading them, writing them (or trying to). I love the falling in love with language that happens with every poem…

Glass Poetry - Recommended Reading 2018

Slightly belated but still super enthused thanks to Anthony Frame, Editor of Glass Poetry, for including my poem “I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party”…

Poem-a-Day in 2019

Thanks to Emily Polson for a shoutout in an article over on Book Riot…

Exceedingly My Mother

Gratitude to Luther Hughes for writing so movingly about my poem, “I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party”…

Chen ChenDecember 6, 2018My poems, Luther Hughes, Column, Frontier Poetry, You Smell Like Outside, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party, New work, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day, Essay, Quote

The future isn't something hidden in a corner. The future is something we build in the present.

—Paulo Freire

If there’s a thing I want to teach me, it’s how I live my light.

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