#chen chen

[catilinas]

Chen Chen

#poetry #chen chen #beeps

[sweatermuppet]

#chen chen

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

Chen Chen "Elegy" | k.c cramm, "tender is not a bad word"

#um hi can u tell these make me insane #poems #save and to keep #chen chen #k.c cramm

[devilsskettle]

Chen Chen

#chen chen #poetry #screaming crying etc

[soracities]

Chen Chen’s ig @ chenchenwrites: on “broken english” vs. the “literary”” [transcript below]:

[Text ID: “i keep thinking of my parents being punished for their so-called “broken english” (a racist term tbh) & how i’ve been rewarded for non-standard english in my poems. to me this points both to the freedom & the institutional gatekeeping around poetry as well as language in general

a related issue: how my queerness receives affirmation & support in my poems more so than in my everyday life -- & that includes when i’m navigating the very same poetry institutions that claim to support my queer art (but not my queer personhood???)

an example that’s sort of silly but also not: i’ve been told by cis het profs/mentors that it’s great i write about butts in poems but i shouldn’t talk about them as just a person or post my own butt lol. & it’s like, ok so i can be me/exciting on the page, but that’s it

these are all the ways that literary institutions claim to support freedom of expression, but it’s really just in the pages of prestigious publications--not in life. & i’m like, sorry but being “free” in poems is not enough

& what’s the point of expanding one’s linguistic/expressive/imaginative/political freedom in poetry, if not to then apply that to life? i’m not interested in a poetry & poetics that’s ultimately so limited in its scope and potential

i find it sad that poetry remains one of the few socially acceptable & prestigious (literary!) outlets for expressing vulnerability/any messy emotion ^ for susing non-standard/unconventional english. when this range of thinking/feeling should be available to & valid for anyone

when i write poetry, i am speaking as my fullest self & also as something mysterious that i feel is beyond the self. for many people, this might happen through everyday multilingual speech & code-switching

&i just think that if you look down on people like my parents for their accents/non-standard english & code-switching, then you don’t actually understand or appreciate my work as a poet. you’re only comfortable with the non-standard when it seems “literary” to you.”]

#love these notes of his #points being Made #quotes #chen chen #notes on the canon #echoes of the other #on writing #m #x

[222mirrorballs]

Writer In The Dark, Lorde / Lady Bird (2017) / For One More Day, Mitch Albom / If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird / Killing Eve (2018-2022) / Poplar Street, Chen Chen / Class of 2013, Mitski / Black Swan (2010) / Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred, Ella Wilson / How to Wear your Mothers Lipstick, Warsan Shire

#Mother’s Day #web weaving #Lorde #writer in the dark #lady bird #greta gerwig #for one more day #mitch albom #if my body could speak #blythe baird #killing eve #poplar street #chen chen #class of 2013 #mitski #black swan #how to wear your mothers lipstick #warsan shire

[aconissa]

I LOVE THE WORLD FROM LOVING YOU

Chen Chen, ‘Elegy’ Mitski, ‘Strawberry Blond’ Ellen He, The Good-Morrow Holly Warburton, a moment! Danez Smith, ‘Acknowledgments’ E.C., ‘Love Freely’

#chen chen #mitski #holly warburton #danez smith #e c #my comparatives #mine #ellen he #popular #ana speaks

[eternal--return]

oh moon, hungry moon, unkissed & silent, I would kiss you.

Chen Chen · “Race to the Tree.” When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017)

#chen chen #race to the tree #when I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities #poem #bookshelf

[harringtongf]

elegy on soups and the hands that make them 

our beautiful life when its filled with shrieks, christopher citro | pro chef vs. mom’s homemade pho, watcher | chen chen | hu yang | the hungers of hadewijch and eckhart, donald duclow | pro chef vs. mom’s homemade pho, watcher | rice, mary oliver | holly warburton | @ romcommunist | @ compsigh | @ nicollekidman | @ dakotajohnsongf | natalie diaz | just the two of us, clifford prince king | @ apolohgy | @ peachblushparlour | kitchen tables: peter pereira, “a pot of red lentils” | tales from earthsea | in the kitchen by helena janecic | 리틀 포레스트 (little forest) 2018 dir. 임순례 (yim soon-rye)

[id in reblogs!]

#ok im not tagging u in the post but TYY keith musafiir for inspiration !! #mb #mine #to mb: love exists in the kitchen - in the dough #mbed #christopher citro #watcher #chen chen #hu yang #donald duclow #mary oliver #holly warburton #natalie diaz #clifford prince king #peter pereira #helena janecic #yim soon-rye #food #food tw

[metamorphesque]

"I tried to ask my parents to leave the room, but not my life. It was very hard. Because the room was the size of my life. Because my life was small."

— Chen Chen, “Chapter VIII”

#chen chen #quotes #literature #family #life #I'm suffocating #dark academia #dark academia aesthetics #poetry #chaotic academia

[araekni]

feel free to skip if uncomfortable: may i get a request of trauma around your mom?

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

Annie Ernaux, I Remain In Darkness

Joan Tierney, How To Build A Table

Mad Men (2007–2015), 6x12: The Quality of Mercy

Chen Chen, Poplar Street

Lynne Shako, To The Daughter Who Secretly Longs For Her Mother’s Affection

Mary Jean Chan, what my mother (a poet) might say

Joan Tierney, DO NOT REPLY

Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

Phoebe Bridgers, Motion Sickness

Zeena Abbas, Mom, I Know We Haven’t Spoken In A While But

Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom, trans. Chi-Young Kim

Jenny Holzer, Untitled (Food Won’t Go Down...), from Inflamatory Essays

@fuckingwhateverdude, THERAPY SESSION BETWEEN THE GRANDMOTHER, THE MOTHER AND THE DAUGHTER (PART I)

Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson

Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read

Wych Elm, Susan Smith

Junot Diaz, Wildwood

#webs #web weaving #theme: mothers #theme: daughters #theme: dysfunction #requests #mine #susan sontag #annie ernaux #joan tierney #mad men #chen chen #lynne shako #mary jean chan #gillian flynn #phoebe bridgers #zeena abbas #kyung sook shin #jenny holzer #@fuckingwhateverdude #anne carson #ocean vuong #wych elm #junot diaz #sophocles #i really didn't mean for this to get so long. u probably won't believe me after this but i do have a good relationship with my mum i promise

[firstfullmoon]

i keep thinking of this

#so true king... #also its crazy to me that he's not verified. in my head he's a celebrity #the gentleness that comes not from the absence of violence but despite the abundance of it #w #chen chen #🐦

[moonlightpoetry]

on religious trauma <3

clementine von radics / victoria chang - obit / my photo / joan tierney @filmnoirsbian / chen chen - poplar street / DO NOT REPLY / nicolas martin / richard siken / saeed jones - how we fight for our lives / taylor swift - my tears ricochet

#web weaving #religious trauma #quotes #art #photography #mine #no hate like christian love #motherhood #clementine von radics #victoria chang #joan tierney #chen chen #nicolas martin #richard siken #saeed jones #taylor swift

[saintsebastiensbf]

mitski, strawberry blond / e.c., love freely / chen chen, when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities / hanya yanagihara, a little life / interview with cohen by kris kirk, poetry commotion, June 18, 1988 / gabriela mistral, from a letter to doris dana

#mitski #strawberry blond #i love everybody because i love you #webweaving #e.c. #chen chen #hanya yanagihara #leonard cohen #gabriela mistral

[thecollectibles]

Ponyo by Chen Chen

#art #digital art #Illustration #painting #Chen Chen #fan art

[luthienne]

Chen Chen, from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities; “Elegy”

#chen chen #when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities #elegy #words #poetry #typography #a kind of holiness #favorite #xx #love as the center of everything

[eyebrowgel]

chen chen - talking to god about heaven from the bed of a heathen

#chen chen #talking to god about heaven from the bed of a heathen #poetry #words #when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities #gay poetry #gay literature #gay lit

[eternal--return]

I am making my loneliness small. So small it fits on a postcard a baby rabbit could eat. The sun sets like an expensive fragrance. Like the memory of a neck.

Chen Chen · “West of Schenectady.” When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017)

#chen chen #west of schenectady #when I grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities #poem #bookshelf

[llovelymoonn]

on inherited pain

a.s.j. tessimond the children look at the parents \\ peter doig girl in tree (2001) \\ futngina \\ ?? \\ bob’s burgers \\ chen chen chapter viii \\ @holly-warbs​ \\ ?? \\ louise glück the seven ages: “mother and child” 

kofi

#on pain #on families #mine #my webweaving #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #webs #parallels #compilations #peter doig #girl in tree #chen chen #chapter viii #bob's burgers #mother and child #louise glück #the seven ages #holly warburton #a.s.j. tessimond #the children look at the parents