April 28, 2024

Chen Chen

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, both published by BOA Editions. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.

tonight, i am the worst queer—i hate longing, detest

yearning. right now, i am the worst queer poet

POEMS 

Poems are the opposite of habits. They are explosions. Sometimes they are small explosions. But loud. Or huge, quiet explosions. I don’t know. I want to keep not knowing. Maybe that’s the tradition I’m writing out of: Not Knowing. Though I also believe I’m writing out of a queer, Asian American tradition that’s equal parts political and sensual. Also, funny.

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