Chinatown Presents: Finding Home with Chen Chen

In December 2020 we launched new video series featuring a poetry and dance collaboration. In interviews and poetry readings, poet Chen Chen explores issues of home, identity, immigration, and coming out. Each poetry reading is accompanied by interpretive choreography by Chavi Bansal, IJ Chan, and Flora Kim.

Videography by Olivia Huang

Videography by Olivia Huang

Videography by Olivia Huang

Videography by Olivia Huang

Poet Chen Chen shares more about his writing at Pao Arts Center

Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books recently published the UK edition. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and The Best American Poetry (2015 & 2019). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence.