My poems are often braver than I am. They can say things I’m not ready to, yet.
—from an interview at Mud Season Review
Joy Sauce - “Welcome to the School of Chen Chen, Hottie Poet Extraordinaire” (by J.A. Dela Cruz-Smith)
The Chills at Will Podcast - “Episode 148 with Chen Chen” (by Peter Riehl)
Gasher Press - “ ‘What Is the More Complicated Truth I’m Not Facing?’: A Conversation with Chen Chen on Vulnerability” (by Joanna Acevedo)
PWN’s Debut Review - “Return to the Craft with Chen Chen” (by Ray Brunt & Courtney Harler)
The Poetry Question - “TPQ20: Episode 11 - Chen Chen” (by Courtney & Chris Margolin)
bath magg - “Interview #10 Chen Chen” (by Joe Carrick-Varty)
Poetry Off the Shelf (Poetry Foundation) - “Technically Roommates” (by Helena de Groot)
Words and Sh*t Podcast - “featuring Chen Chen & Sam Herschel Wein” (by Chibbi & Raqui)
Counterclock - "APA Writer Series: Chen Chen On the Baggage of Language" (by Rachel Lu)
Blue Mountain Review - Cover + Interview (by Nicole Tallman)
32 Poems - “Not Just the Zany and the Zingy: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Cate Lycurgus)
Fortune Cookie Conversations (United Chinese Americans) - “with Chen Chen” (by May Tang)
Lantern Review blog - “Poetry for an Exhausted World: A Conversation with Chen Chen” (by Karen Zheng)
Queer Words podcast - “Conversation with Chen Chen” (by Wayne Goodman)
Stonecoast MFA - “Speaking of Poetry in a Time of Pandemic: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Linda Mahal)
wildness - “An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Michelle Tudor)
Planet China - “Exploring the Chinese LGBTQ community in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad” (pp. 35-38, by Dominique Musorrafiti)
(585) Magazine - “Further Possibilities: Renowned poet makes Rochester home” (by Christine Green)
Hobart - “Chen Chen Interview” (by Daniel Pieczkolon)
Gaysian Third Space - “Follower Friday: chenchenwrites”
Los Angeles Review of Books: China Channel - “Let Not-Knowing Push You Somewhere New” (by Urvashi Bahuguna)
Winter Tangerine - “I Forget Myself/My Power When I’m Not in Conversation with Other Creative Minds: an Interview with Chen Chen" (by francesca ekwuyasi)
Poets & Writers - “The Whole Self: Our Thirteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets” (by Dana Isokawa)
Asian American Writers Workshop - “Writing the Families We Want: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Yanyi)
The Lifted Brow, reprinted on Lit Hub - “Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Santos Perez in Conversation”
VIDA - “Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – Chen Chen”
From the Fishouse - “Q&A with advice to young poets” and “Q&A on a favorite poem”
Sine Theta Magazine - “Conversation: Chen Chen Writes” (by Emily Chen)
Michigan Quarterly Review - “A List of Further Possibilities: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Allison Peters)
The Ellis Review - “Migration Pattern: Chen Chen” (by Valerie Wu)
Fjords Review - “Poetry Interview with Chen Chen” (by Jennifer Parker)
The Rumpus Poetry Club - “Chat with Chen Chen” (by Brian Spears)
PoetryLA - “Chen Chen: A Poem By Series” (by Lisa Grove)
Lone Star Literary - “Poet Chen Chen on arriving and belonging, the craft of writing, and Texas” (by Kay Ellington)
Mud Season Review - “Writing Is Part of How I Resist” (by Erin Post)
Dustin Brookshire’s Poet Profile - “Chen Chen”
Out.com - “‘Queer People are Making Beautiful Worlds:’ Chen Chen on his Debut Poetry Collection” (by Thora Siemsen)
The Adroit Journal - “Conversations with Contributors: Chen Chen” (by Audrey Zhao)
Platypus Press FIVES - “Five Things with Chen Chen”
Trish Hopkinson’s Call for Submissions - “NO FEE Submission call & editor interview — Underblong” with co-editor Sam Herschel Wein
Sundress Publications' Lyric Essentials - “Lyric Essentials: Chen Chen Reads ‘Lone Star Kundiman’ by Patrick Rosal”
TheThe Poetry - “Infoxicated Corner: Interview with Chen Chen” (by Fox Frazier-Foley)
Sundress Publications’ SAFTAcast - “Episode 55 – Chen Chen!”
Lantern Review - “On the Chapbook and the ‘Possibilities of Risk’: A Conversation with Chen Chen and Margaret Rhee”
Up the Staircase Quarterly - “The Landing with Chen Chen” (by Rhiannon Thorne)
PBS Newshour - “Chen Chen on writing poetry while Chinese, American and gay” (by Corinne Segal)
Writing like an Asian - “Five Qs with Chen Chen”
PANK - “The Lightning Room with Chen Chen” (by Diana Clarke)
Driftwood Press - On “The Tease” (pp. 37-39)