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Open Mouth Presents: A Reading with Chen Chen

A Reading with Chen Chen

by The Open Mouth Literary Center

Sun, September 11, 2022

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

Online event

A virtual reading with featured poet Chen Chen.

About this event

Join us for a reading by featured poet Chen Chen. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by members of our poetry community.

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ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom and Otter.ai auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of poems will be made available via Google Docs. Our Access Statement will be read before we begin.

Recommended for attendees 16 years and above.

FEATURED READER:

Chen Chen is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and the forthcoming book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2023). His debut book of poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He teaches at Brandeis University.

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