Marianne Chan is the author of All Heathens from Sarabande Books, which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rumpus, West Branch, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
Poetry
May/June 2021
Watching a Documentary about Imelda Marcos, I Think about the Bottoms of My Cousin’s Feet
scraped with a cheese grater at the nail salon, the calluses dirt hard, like the firm inner shell meat of a coconut, shavings piled on the floor. “These have never […]
Poetry
May/June 2021
Biddle City Filipina
I married a good man, he works for GM, good salary, benefits. Where is he now, he’s outside. Shoveling the snow after blizzard. With GM, good salary and benefits, we […]
Poetry
May/June 2021
Autobiography Via Forgetting
1 I once heard someone call themselves “a string of memories.” The opposite is true for me. I’m a cement block of forgetfulness. For every new memory, something else gets […]
Poetry
May/June 2021
One Cactus
After Miyoshi Tatsuji The xeriscape garden, we walked through. Under the trees, the world, ten degrees cooler. C. would identify the plants by their names: agave, green palo verde, baja […]