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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

To be a cyclone of laughter when my parents say their new coworker is like that, they can tell because he wears pink socks, see, you don't, so you can't,…

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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Winner of the A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

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To be a good ex/current friend for R. To be one last inspired way to get back at R. To be relationship advice for L. To be advice for my ...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

In this poem, the speaker imagines different possibilities for what they can be. As you read, take notes on how the poem's imagery affects the tone.

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In Chen Chen's debut collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, the poet deftly explores the possibilities ...

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His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, and The Best American ...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

... future in his poems… As a gay, Asian-American poet, Chen casts his poems as both a refusal of the shame of sexuality and of centering ...

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Description. LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY. WINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRY. WINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD.

On Chen Chen's When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a List of Further ...

Immigrant, poet, queer, American—pools that ultimately aren't large enough to reflect something more complex and restless. The political ...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities by Chen ...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and ...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen ...

“I am not the heterosexual neat freak my mother raised me to be,” he writes powerfully in the opening poem of the collection. ... His debut poetry collection, ...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

The “little strangers” in one of his more experimental poems, “Please take your shoes off before entering do not disturb,” shows cuteness as ...

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Poetry Prize, is a brilliant first book. Scratch that—it is simply a brilliant book and one of my favorites of the year. Chen's poems read often ...

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There are also poems about nature, sex, and loss, and a poem echoing Christopher Smart's ode to his cat, “For I will consider my boyfriend Jeffrey. / For he is ...

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If your only encounter with Chen Chen is his poem, for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me from Best American Poetry 2016 (published ...

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The influence of poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Franny Choi, and Monica Sok are apparent within much of Chen's work. His poems are conversational like Ginsberg's ...

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Sometimes that hope comes in and out like a breeze. Very rarely, that hope turns to something akin to joy. Chen Chen's debut book of poems, When ...