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victoriachang.bsky.social
Poet and writer. Avid reader. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
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Thanks to Oxford Poetry and Godelieve de Bree for reviewing With My Back to the World

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Lapwing by Hannah Copley

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Say hello to our Session Two Poetry Faculty for our Residential Adult Writers Workshop! Join us this summer in beautiful Gambier, Ohio on Kenyon's campus to join a supportive and rigorous writing community flourishing since 1995! kenyonreview.org/event/summer...

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#lifttothesky @victoriachang.bsky.social With My Back to the World just started reading this but am enjoying very much @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Thanks to Camille Dungy and Richard Siken for a great night at Poetry@Tech!

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The Chinese language cover for OBIT, coming out in the summer with East China Normal University Press. Translated by Dong Li.

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Join us for our next Poetry@Tech reading, Thursday 2/13 at 7pm, reception at 6:15pm, with Richard Siken and Camille Dungy.

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This beautiful object came in the mail, the new Switchyard, Winter 2025 with some of my art and poems and some beautiful collages by Virgil Suárez.

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First few pages from Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr, Wesleyan University Press

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“it rained all the rumors off my face. And then the wind blew everything but my expression away.” — @victoriachang.bsky.social, “Song, 1962” oxonianreview.com/articles/fiv...

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What a joy to read with @lkwatel and E. Hughes, two amazing poets. Thanks to Deanna Sirlin and the The Art Section and the Carlos Museum.

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Honored With My Back to the World is a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards. arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-a...

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Next week Thursday at 7:30pm at Emory University's Carlos Museum, @victoriachang.bsky.social, Lauren K Watel, and I will share poems. I am very much looking forward to this reading! RSVP: eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?e...

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A beautiful poem by Larry Levis (in the New Yorker).

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🎙️NEW! Our acclaimed Nothing But The Poem podcast is back with a new monthly series. Hosted by @SamuelTongue it takes an immersive dive into poems by an individual poet. The first poet featured in 2025 is @victoriachang.bsky.social Listen in here: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/noth...

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From Alta

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Thanks for sharing, Weike Wang

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My favourite books read in 2024. Last year there was nothing I enjoyed more than escaping into fiction of all kinds and all genres. I read a lot less non-fiction than I usually do and I was hungry for plot and for page turners. In the stack: *Miranda July, All Fours *Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost ..

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My Annual Reminder to Myself that I Actually Love Poetry (Part I): in 2024, I read 172 poetry books (168 full-length and 4 chapbooks, out of 263 books overall). Here are my favorites (in alphabetical order by author): simeonberry.com/book-recomme...

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Another piece from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil Rider

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So grateful to NPR, The Guardian, Lithub, Electric Lit, and everyone who took the time to read With My Back to the World this year. Honored to be on this list with these other books.

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Thanks Booklist

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Couplets by Maggie Millner

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The Vertical Interrogation of Strangeness by Bhanu Kapil

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Deadlines approaching: poetrysociety.org/awards

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lithub.com/our-favorite...

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Thanks for sharing, Chen Chen, from The Trees Witness Everything

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Thanks for sharing, Chen Chen, from The Trees Witness Everything

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A Thousand Thoughts in Flight, by Maria Gabriela Llansol, translated by Audrey Young. Published by Deep Vellum

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LitHub asked some poets what our favorite poems of the year are and I picked two ("A Sunset" by Robert Haas and “The Poets Awoke” by m. nourbeSe Philip) lithub.com/49-contemporary-...

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Someone loves me!

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Maybe you’ll consider donating to Poetry Society this year? Through Poetry in Motion, Park Poems, and more, help them bring more poems to more people and more places. poetrysociety.givecloud.co/donate

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social / @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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Something to look forward to in 2025, The Essential C.D. Wright.

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Another beautiful novel in verse to add to our classroom library! @victoriachang.bsky.social #204Reads

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A Poem as an Open Field – in conversation with 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 Congratulations to 2024 Forward Prize winner @victoriachang.bsky.social! Read her #interview in the Fall issue of #AmsterdamReview bit.ly/VictoriaChang

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Thanks to all the booksellers and independent bookstores, especially the London Review Bookshop and Pages of Hackney

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As part of our ongoing Books of the Year series, Madeleine Wurzburger recommends With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang (@victoriachang.bsky.social), published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Thanks to The Poetry Society and Madeleine Wurzburger for selecting With My Back to the World as one of your Books of the Year

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A beautiful journal: BRICK, out of Toronto.

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We've been working hard on remodeling our Poetry@Tech suite at Georgia Tech--and it's finally coming all together, especially our lobby area--

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"I like planting poems in deep silence, [where] each person gets at the poem for himself [her/them]. He has to come to the poems with an ear for all the music they can give..." -Lorine Niedecker in a letter to Gail Roub

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I had a lovely conversation with Lauren Watel in the Art Section, edited by Deanna Sirlin. It's nice when a reader really understands your work. www.theartsection.com/victo...

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