Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity (University of Georgia Press, 2008) and Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017), which received the William Carlos Williams Award in 2018. Her work has recently appeared in The Best American Poetry 2022, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, The Yale Review, and Poetry, and she has been awarded the Levinson Prize by the Poetry Foundation and fellowships by MacDowell and Hewnoaks Artist Residency. She is the poetry editor of New England Review and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. Her new book, An Authentic Life, is forthcoming this fall from Copper Canyon Press.
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
A Lunch Date
Across the table from each other we sat in the nervous light of our eyes, one Virginia afternoon, as women might decide to eat or not eat together. Everywhere I […]
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
Children in the World
he cannot sleep because he wants a story he cannot sleep so I tell him the one story I remember about my mother as a young girl how she sat […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
River Pilgrims
I’m the one who’s raw. I’m the one learning the river’s silt and scum, how the sediment floats but the muck and mire sink. Sister Elizabeth, what did the asphalt […]