Wendy Chen

Wendy Chen was awarded the Most Promising Young Poet Prize by the Academy of American Poets in 2014. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, American Poets, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The McNeese Review, Copper Nickel, and the anthology Translations from World Literature, among others. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in poetry at Syracuse University.

The Transmutation of Fire: An Interview with Michael Prior – curated by Wendy Chen

This entry was posted in Editor's Feature and tagged Michael Prior Wendy Chen on July 14, 2020 by Kristina Marie Darling

Michael Prior is the author of Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020) and Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016). His poems have appeared in The New Republic, POETRY, Narrative, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, Poetry Northwest, and The Margins, among other magazines and anthologies. Michael holds graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and Cornell University. Wendy […]

An Introduction to David Winter by Wendy Chen

This entry was posted in Editors' Selections and tagged David Winter Wendy Chen on March 14, 2019 by Kristina Marie Darling

David Winter’s attention to the physicality of objects and language carries an immediate and arresting gravity. “W. W. II GERMAN S.S. DIVISION SOUP SPOON, $250.00” is, in his own words, “part of a larger body of work-in-progress responding to Nazi and Ku Klux Klan artifacts displayed for sale by […]

Rows of Small Mountains by Li Qingzhao, translated by Wendy Chen

This entry was posted in Translation and tagged Li Qingzhao Wendy Chen on February 14, 2017 by Kristina Marie Darling

Spring arrives at Long Gate with its green grasses. The red plums are just beginning to blossom. I grind the block of tea into powder: a pot of spring breaks apart the memory of this morning’s dream. Flower shadows flower a cross the layered doors. The gauzy curtain […]

Proud Fisherman by Li Qingzhao, translated by Wendy Chen

This entry was posted in Translation and tagged Li Qingzhao Wendy Chen on February 14, 2017 by Kristina Marie Darling

The clouds, spread like waves across the sky, tumble into the morning fog. The star river turns. A thousand sails dance. As in a dream, my soul is carried before the Emperor of Heaven who asks politely where I will go. My journey is long, I say, and […]

The Approach of Happiness by Li Qingzhao, translated by Wendy Chen

This entry was posted in Translation and tagged Li Qingzhao Wendy Chen on February 14, 2017 by Kristina Marie Darling

The wind has stopped, the fallen flowers fallen deeply. Outside the window, their red petals, heaped like snow, the memory, after-blooming, of crab-apples—a time when spring is wounded. The wine is spent, the song finished. The jade pitcher empty. The bronze lamp flickers and dims. I cannot bear […]