The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose, edited by Philip Schultz and Bill Henderson

I apparently have been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me this question, because here is a list (personal favorites, books popular with readers at my library) that I just happened to have. 'Tis the season for creating novels-in-verse displays in libraries!

📖 9 diverse middle grade novels in verse

Had a wonderful day at the LA Times Festival of Books. Thanks to Guia Serrano, Jamie Jo Hoang, and Maria Dolores Aguila for a great panel.

Jane Hirshfield gave a beautiful lecture on haiku and tankas at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Thank you to Polina Barskova, Catherine Ciepiela, Wang Yin, Andrea Lingenfelter, Reina María Rodríguez, and Kristin Dykstra for joining Poetry@Tech last week for our International Poetry & Translation events.

Join Maria Dolores Aguila, Guia Serrano, Jamie Jo Hoang, and me at the LA Times Festival of Books, April 18, 2pm on the YA Stage

Join Poetry@Tech Thursday and Friday for a reading and panel with poets and their translators: Reina María Rodriguez & Kristin Dykstra, Wang Yin & Andrea Lingenfelter, Polina Barskova & Catherine Ciepiela.

Poetry Month post. The poems "I Tell My Children" by Victoria Chang from her wholly remarkable collection Obit (2020.)

Thanks to The Week Junior for including EUREKA this month

Poems are all over MARTA trains for National Poetry Month, thanks to Poetry@Tech's collaboration with MARTA's public art program, Artbound. Poetry@Tech collaborated with Atlanta-based artists Chloe Alexander, Jamaal Barber, Nick Benson, and Sanithna.

I haven't read a book of poetry cover to cover in a single sitting in over a year and I inhaled this one. Permanent favorite. Exquisite. I needed it. Perfect start to National Poetry Month.

Victoria Chang, author of WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD, reads “The Guitar” by Federico García Lorca for #NationalPoetryMonth.

A few more beautiful Poetry@Tech yard signs for National Poetry Month at Georgia Tech

Some beautiful Poetry@Tech poetry yard signs at Georgia Tech for National Poetry Month

March #NotesfromtheHornBook: 5 verse novels for intermediate/MS readers during #NationalPoetryMonth in April www.hbook.com/story/the-ve... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social @marcellapixley.bsky.social

Larry Levis Swirl & Vortex, Graywolf Press, with a few new poems like this one

Thanks to The Horn Book for the beautiful review of EUREKA. www.hbook.com/story/the-ver...

Robert Hass's A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World, Copper Canyon Press.

“Imagination can be transferred. In the hours you are alone, it oils the soul.” From “Juneau,” a poem by Victoria Chang. theoffingmag.com/poetry/juneau/

When I read @victoriachang.bsky.social's "Dear Memory" it send my mind on fire. An amazing book by an amazing writer & teacher!

Happy publication day to the paperback of DEAR MEMORY: LETTERS ON WRITING, SILENCE, AND GRIEF. milkweed.org/book/dear-me...

Join me for this online poetry class with BRINK: www.brinkliterary.com/onlin... (5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 4pm PT/7pm ET)

So honored to have Catherine Ho bring these characters to life. Thanks also to Kirkus Audiobook Reviews.

Join Matthew Zapruder and me for Gift of Deep Song: a Short Course on Lorca. Online Tuesdays, starting March 10 through the Community of Writers. communityofwriters.org/gift-of-deep...

Victoria Chang is today’s #HighlightedPoet @victoriachang.bsky.social 1/13/25 Interview with Center for Literary Publishing Chang discusses writing as a reader, the relationship between poetry and philosophy . . . #BlueSkyPoets #PoetrySky #Poetry coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2025/01/a-co...

Our wonderful AWP panel

AWP Day 3

More AWP fun

AWP day 1

Straight from the Source: Victoria Chang on Writing Historical Fiction buff.ly/12Um6L6 via @CStarrRose #ReadYourWorld #middlegrade #Historicalfiction #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth #AAPI #Chinatown #violence

Join Matthew Zapruder and me for Gift of Deep Song: a Short Course on Lorca. Online Tuesdays, starting March 10 through the Community of Writers. communityofwriters.org/gift-of-deep...

Thanks to Caroline Starr Rose for the interview on Eureka and on writing historical fiction: carolinestarrrose.com/strai...

That is the question. From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bit.ly/treeswitness #poem #booksky #writing

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry by Arthur Sze, published by Copper Canyon Press

A #MG #historicalfiction #novelinverse that will tug at ur heartstrings & educate u at the same time: bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #librarian #bookrecommendation #librarians @victoriachang.bsky.social

Come find me if you plan on attending AWP in Baltimore.

Victoria Chang is today’s #HighlightedPoet #BlueSkyPoets #PoetrySky #Poetry This middle grade verse novel, EUREKA, sounds amazing. Remembering #history is critically important right now.

#Poem The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klimt) by Victoria Chang today’s #HighlightedPoet @victoriachang.bsky.social #BlueSkyPoets #PoetrySky #Poetry #EkphrasticPoetry

Victoria Chang never misses. An entire collection that’s in conversation with Agnes Martin and her work. Just 🤯 #poetry @victoriachang.bsky.social

Beautiful copies of the Dear Memory paperback arrived. Thanks to Milkweed Editions for continuing to believe in this book. I selected six new essays to include in this new edition.

Thank you to Layli Long Soldier and Michael Joseph Walsh for a wonderful evening of poetry and community at Georgia Tech.

Join Poetry@Tech tomorrow at 6pm: Layli Long Soldier and winner of the Georgia Prize, Michael Joseph Walsh.

Thanks to Myrna Keliher and Expedition Press for sending me these beautiful poetry notecards.

A beautiful day at Brown University and exploring the RISD Museum. Thanks to Anthony Cheung and Elena Shih.

The beautiful cover for Dear Memory's paperback (with six new essays), designed by Mary Austin Speaker. Milkweed Editions, March 17, 2026

Thank you Robin Arble for the beautiful essay on personal grief and my book, OBIT. electricliterature.com/stud... @electricliterature.com

For @rfsmith.bsky.social and your #PromptCombo #Moment, thought you might like this. Victoria Chang from 'The Trees Witness Everything'.

"An Indigenous Present" brochure, from ICA Boston

EUREKA is out now! It is a gorgeous and emotionally resonant novel-in-verse with 2 starred reviews by award-winning poet @victoriachang.bsky.social that sensitively and lyrically renders the tragic events surrounding the 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from Eureka, California. bit.ly/4sJsLm7