Teaching — Blog

clarity, which can be the deepest mystery

maybe i should turn this space into a teaching blog? a space to reflect on teaching & share some favorite exercises…

Chen ChenNovember 23, 2021Teaching, Emilia Phillips, Twitter

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

teaching during a pandemic

really don't understand profs or admins who're saying rn that students who are living in other countries and have 7-12 hour time differences should still... be able to attend class... as usual???

Chen ChenSeptember 3, 2020Teaching, Pandemic, COVID-19, Productivity, Academia, Needs

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

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

Olympia

So much gratitude to Beth Reynolds for this Olympia typewriter…

Chen ChenFebruary 28, 2019Olympia, Typewriter, Gift, Cookies, Gratitude, Beth Reynolds, Jeff Gilbert, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Brandeis University, Poetry workshop, Nikky Finney, Care, Attention, Unfolding, Yay, Teaching, Learning, Personal

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.

—Yanyi

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