Beautiful prose poem by Victoria Chang.

Happy New Year! Resolve to read our Winter 2025-26 issue, out today and featuring poetry and prose from Alice Hoffman, Victoria Chang, Jennifer Martelli, and more! Start reading: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/

“The mirror won the battle. I am now imprisoned in the mirror. All my selves spread out like a deck of cards.” — @victoriachang.bsky.social, “Obit” @kenyonreview.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Community Poetry | Victoria Chang, Velislava Kuzmenko https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/95990/ In her poem “The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint)” from the Review’s October 23, 2025, issue, Victoria…

An interview in the New York Review of Books, by Velislava Kuzmenko. www.nybooks.com/online/2026...

Thanks to Rebecca Morgan Frank and Lithub for putting Tree of Knowledge (FSG, July 2026) on this list.

Still love this book by Kim Addonizio, Ordinary Genius.

New-Generation African Poets, edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani, Akashic Books, 2025.

Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, May 14-17, 2026. Deadline to apply: Dec. 31 www.lgrwc.org/

Join Matthew Zapruder and me for a short course on Lorca. Online Tuesdays, March 10-April 7, 4pm PT/7pm ET. https://communityofwriters.org/gift-of-deep-song/

🎉 Pop! Goes The Reader's 40 Most-Anticipated Middle Grade Books: January-March 2026 🎉 popgoesthereader.com/40-most-anti... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit

Three Talks by Brenda Hillman.

I’ll be in conversation with Daniel Sluman online today at 7:15pm GMT (11:15 am PT/2:15 pm ET). Register here: www.arvon.org/writing-cours...

Some wonderful reviews about EUREKA--Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly.

The U.S. and U.K. book covers for Tree of Knowledge: Poems, July 2026

Study of Sorrow: Translations of Song dynasty poets by Shangyang Fang, published by Copper Canyon Press

A few new books I picked up at the Miami Book Fair from Books & Books.

Looking forward to being on a Miami Book Fair panel with Harryette Mullen and Reginald Dwayne Betts: The Company We Keep: Poetry as Witness & Warning. Sunday, 11/23 at 3pm ET.

This Saturday, I'll be leading an online poetry writing workshop, where we'll read together and write together. This is through Scotland's Push the Boat Out Festival. 9am PT/12pm ET. pushtheboatout.org/events/p...

What a build. What a final line. From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596322 #poem #books #writing

Grateful to Marie Howe and Rick Barot for their wonderful readings and presence at Poetry@Tech

There are a lot of wonderful poets in Singapore! Thank you all for sharing your words and books with me. 

Very excited to welcome Marie Howe and Rick Barot to Poetry@Tech this Thursday! Please join us at the Walter G. Ehmer Theater at 6pm.

Thank you @richardsiken.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social and Richie for these beautiful endorsements

It is such a great honor to help @victoriachang.bsky.social select the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize alongside Weijia pan and L.A. Johnson. Send your manuscripts by November 30th! ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...

Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...

Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."

Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."

Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.

Last chance to register for Poetry@Tech's virtual craft talk with Rick Barot on syntax (this Saturday at 11am PT/2pm ET). Anyone can join! Link in bio to register.

Honored to serve as a Neustadt juror this year. Made new friends, saw many old friends.

Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley

Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫 This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/

Thanks to University of British Columbia and Green College, and The Whole Cloth Reading Series for welcoming me so warmly. Pictured here: Bronwen Tate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Alix Ohlin, Neil Aitken.

Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse

The UBC campus with all of its beautiful trees

At The University of British Columbia and Green College for the Whole Cloth Reading Series, I'll be reading the whole of With My Back to the World

No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok

It was such an honor to give the keynote at the Decatur Book Festival last night. Thank you and thank you and thank you to contributors Victoria Chang and Aruni Kashyap for helping me bring THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT to live. And big love to everyone who joined us.

@victoriachang.bsky.social, you must stop being such a damn incredible poet. No, I'm kidding, you must never stop. poets.org/poem/swan-no...

#Poetry -- poets.org/poem/swan-no... @victoriachang.bsky.social "The way poems, as you write them, seem to fly at first, but then fasten to the page, becoming arthritic before your eyes."

Thanks to Junior Library Guild for selecting EUREKA, my middle grade verse novel, as a Gold Standard Selection. Out in January by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers.

A beautiful hybrid craft anthology from Brink Literary Journal, edited by Alisha Jeddeloh

A beautiful and fun event with Saeed Jones and Aruni Kashyap at the Decatur Book Festival talking about the People’s Project, curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith.

Thanks to Major Jackson for inviting me to the beautiful Vanderbilt campus. With Rick Hilles and Su Cho.

Join Poetry@Tech for a Virtual Poetry Craft Talk with Rick Barot: Lavish Syntax. Oct. 25, 2pm ET/11am PT. Register here: gatech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks to Shangyang Fang and UMass Boston MFA for the fun visit.

We had a wonderful evening at Poetry@Tech, thanks to Ada Limón and Rigoberto González

Join Poetry@Tech this Thursday 9/25 for our Bourne Poetry Event, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Ada Limón and Rigoberto González. Reading starts at 6pm at the Walter E. Ehmer Theater, reception at 5:15pm.