Chen Chen's 'When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Chen Chen is one of the most recognized gay poets writing today. His debut collection, 'When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities' won the prestigious A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Writers' League of Texas Book Award, while also being longlisted for the National Book Award and named a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer Prize-winning gay poet, wrote the foreword to this collection and describes him as “a speaker whose obsessive and curious nature is that of an adult who refuses to give up seeing through the eyes of an adolescent, one who believes that the world is a malleable place and that asking the right questions changes its form.”

If you plan on attending, we will also be reading two short essays that Chen Chen wrote about his poetry that I can e-mail as a pdf. The room is open at 7 to chat and discussion starts at 7:30. Feel free to order food/drinks.