in my favorite sweater for valentine’s soup dumplings

no more AI "art." i want art made by people because i want to know how people think, feel, live. how a day on this earth is for someone else. a night. and why the heart, though so heavy, still wants to dance. i want art that looks into this mystery. art that connects me to another person who wonders

i love it when people care. about words, about meaning, about each other, about what we mean to one another, about the world we’re making—or could make

i love love. and speed skater butt

omg I am ALWAYS here for new poems by Chen Chen 🤩 And if you like poetry, please read his collection <Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency> (which remains one of my favorite titles tbh).

me watching any olympic event: the pretty boy should win! the prettiest!!

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive" ----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk . . . #poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

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"I wish I could feel your warmth, as easily as I feel his." From @chenchenwrites.bsky.social's book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Get it here: bit.ly/chenchenpossibilities #poem #books #writing

A new book to LOVE 😍 Contributor @samforbreakfast.bsky.social and Former Poetry Contest Judge @chenchenwrites.bsky.social have a chapbook titled LOVE THAT FOR US, forthcoming March 6th 🎉 Preorders are available now!! buff.ly/x1c7igF

is the heated rivalry fandom as deranged on here as it is on twitter

sooo i still don’t post as much on here because some of the replies are just annoying. why are you so earnest and grim and determined to read a vague post in the most dire possible way

i am mainly talking about the conservative reaction to bad bunny lol.

it’s so funny when someone can’t stand you being silly and having fun. and it’s not just jealousy. it’s clear they think you’re not taking life seriously enough, when pure joy is one of the most serious things you can do or be

a lot of people are bad at joy or like, having fun for a moment, i guess

Omggggggg

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i wrote a collection with my bestie and it’s gonna be out in the world soooooon. like, actually.

Coming March 6th, 2026, LOVE THAT FOR US by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) and Sam Herschel Wein (@samforbreakfast.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order!! www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/love...

🫐 new poem in the yale review 🫐

"I wouldn’t want anyone to actually visit my past, to walk right into it like a coffee shop, where the music playing is bad, where my mistakes are just happening for however long they take & my present self isn’t there to sigh, then say, Wait, please," @chenchenwrites.bsky.social !

i work at the intersections of gay and homosexual

it's seriously the best. it's flower arranging but for, like, humanity.

I can’t hardly stand it this is so light footed and melancholic. All I want to do today is read it. Thank you @chenchenwrites.bsky.social.

Beautiful, sad and sweet, by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social in @yalereview.bsky.social 🫐 yalereview.org/article/chen...

"I had fallen in love with the past tense, wishing I could always speak in it & end most of my verbs with a firmness that felt like clarity. But that was no way to order an iced mocha." From "Tale of the Blueberries" by Chen Chen, TYR's Poem of the Week:

wow i love putting together a packet of other people's poems for teaching. it's one of my favorite things. assembling a packet of other people's poems for a class. like, i can't wait to share something beautiful. and talk about it together. other people's poems. a packet of them!

winter needs to be 2-3 months shorter

AWP 💥 BALTIMORE 🚨 Mark your calendars‼️ It’s all happening on March 4. See you there?

catherine o'hara. no no no. not you. and i never use this word, but what an actual genius.

"success" in a creative field for me means understanding more deeply what i want to do creatively—and getting to do it

the more i'm in the so-called literary world, the more i love writing and the less i love publishing

Hit the nail on the head. 📷 Crave

Wow @chenchenwrites.bsky.social in the news. In my #cultured feed! Get cultured here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

there is no limit to my gay

so stressed about writing, my number one favorite thing in the world

Issue No. 11 is here!! All subscriptions and preorders were dropped off at the post office this morning and should be in your mailboxes very soon!! Didn’t order your copy yet? Get one here: andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-11

something that can be so chic is feeling like yourself again after a long period of numbness

an afternoon of pretzel thins and poem revision

me at 13: dear diary, me today: dear gay people in my phone,

good food good sex good art yes yes yes

need some kimchi fried rice and an overthrow of the federal government

emotionally unavailable is so uninteresting

sometimes i think about other directions my life could've taken. like what if i had been named Rufus

i don’t understand being nostalgic for high school. i am so glad that is over omg

sometimes i have such a good title for a poem but the draft i'm writing for that title just doesn't live up to it 😭

In the Mood for Revision

Thank you @chenchenwrites.bsky.social for these beautiful words about Light Year by @jennywcreative.bsky.social, our first #poetry book of 2026, ready to pre-order now (with limited FREE UK post across our shop including pre-orders) 💜 ninearchespress.com/publications...

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how do people live without gay smut like i don't get it