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Ching-In Chen

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Ching-In Chen is author of 'The Heart's Traffic' (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and 'recombinant' (Kelsey Street Press) and co-editor of 'The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities' (South End Press, AK Press) and 'Here is A Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets' (Achiote Press). A Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole and Callaloo Fellow, they are part of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities, and have been a participant in Sharon Bridgforth's Theatrical Jazz Institute. They have also been awarded fellowships from Can Serrat, Millay Colony for the Arts, the Norman Mailer Center and Imagining America. Their work has appeared in 'The Best American Experimental ...more

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Saturday, Oct 6, 1-2:25p, ‘From Condensary to Essay,’ with Sarah Rosenthal, Jennifer Firestone & DanaTeen Lomax (119 DeBartolo Hall): Four poets who have entered the lush field of the essay read their prose pieces. Drawn to more expansive expression, the poets need to spell things out, clear things up, take a different kind of responsibility, re

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	The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor), Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics by T.C. Tolbert (Editor), Trace Peterson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cole Krawitz (Contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart's Traffic 4.43 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor), Ching-In Chen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor) 4.48 avg rating — 60 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Alphabet of Embers by Rose Lemberg (Editor), Celeste Rita Baker (Contributor), Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recombinant 4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela (Editor), Andrea Walls (Editor), Adriana Ramirez (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience by Kate Lynn Hibbard (Editor), Crystal Boson, Jes Braun 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kundiman for Kin/Information Retrieval for Monsters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Make Black Paper Sing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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