Chen Chen
poet. new chapbook out soon. abolish the police & free palestine
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https://www.chenchenwrites.com
- wow i love putting together a packet of other people's poems for teaching. it's one of my favorite things. assembling a packet of other people's poems for a class. like, i can't wait to share something beautiful. and talk about it together. other people's poems. a packet of them!
- winter needs to be 2-3 months shorter
- catherine o'hara. no no no. not you. and i never use this word, but what an actual genius.
- "success" in a creative field for me means understanding more deeply what i want to do creatively—and getting to do it
- "success" means getting to stay true to why i love writing. "success" means being able to take in others' feedback without internalizing all of it and without watering down what i want to do
- the more i'm in the so-called literary world, the more i love writing and the less i love publishing
- for me, writing is about freedom or trying to be as free as possible in language. publishing is about conventions, other people's (sometimes very conventional) thinking, and how far you can stray (in some genres, like poetry, more than others, but still)