Poet Chen Chen will be at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College’s Bainbridge campus on Wednesday, April 10.
Chinese American poet Chen is a poet and essayist interested in Asian-American histories and futures, family, multilingualism, hybrid texts, humor and pop culture.
He is the author of the poetry collections Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, selected as a 2023 notable book by the American Library Association, and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award and winner of the 2018 Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He is also the author of five chapbooks and his work appears in the 2015, 2019, and 2021 editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists.
Chen earned an MFA from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind poet-in-residence from 2018 to 2022. He teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
This event is part of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, which was founded at Mercer University in 1985 and is a consortium of 10 Georgia colleges and universities working together to bring poets of national and international reputation to member campuses annually, providing important access to the literary arts for Georgia residents across the state.
Chen’s poetry reading will be in the Charles H. Kirbo Center’s solarium beginning at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public with no ticket required.
