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- Chen Chen's second full-length book of poetry, "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency," was published by BOA this year.
Chen Chen
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It’s fitting that Chen Chen is back, living in Rochester, the place where his career as a successful published poet first began to take off. As a winner of BOA Editions’ A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Chen released his debut poetry book “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Future Possibilities” in 2017. The collection later reached the National Book Awards’ longlist and won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. In September, BOA published Chen’s second full-length book, “Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency,” which continues the poet’s at-times-intimate, often-humorous expression of queer identity. You may have already read two of his latest poems — writ large this year on the wall of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, facing the courtyard outside Christ Church. The pieces revel in the evocative imagery of life’s tiny moments, with a style that is both highly articulate and conversational.
Finalists: Andrew Conley | Lu Highsmith | Rachel McKibbens
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