Sylvia Chan

They're here. One month to go! Friends, please spread the word & preorder WE REMAIN TRADITIONAL. As I grow into my voice, I understand how important it is to stand for myself. I can only hope to remember this as I move forth. #firstbook #WeRemainTraditional #thedream 😍😭❤️

Been working on this anthology with @TyehimbaJess for the last year and I am SO THRILLED we finally get to announce it and open the process up for submissions. This is not just a love letter to Black letters, but a love letter to the communities that inspire Black letters. ✨

Available now! A free discussion guide for DISABILITY INTIMACY by @esmewang Accessible PDF: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/upl… About the book: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/disabilit…

Today, we are launching the #Right2Hug Project because we believe everyone has the right to hug their family. Unfortunately, millions of children in the US are being denied this right because jails have banned them from visiting, and hugging, their parents. 🧵

Thank you, @UAPoetryCenter, for always supporting my work. Check out their “A Glimpse into Poetic Asian America”—& have a listen to “Unasylumed, unarchived” while you’re at it. What a lineage. #AAPIHeritageMonth

Reading & Q&A with Jane Miller this Wednesday, 4/17 at 4pm, CSWR Common Room @HarvardDivinity! Jane will present poems from Paper Banners (@copper_canyon_press 2023) & from more recent work. Zoom & in-person registration: tinyurl.com/yj5yk6r9

"The struggles of children in the foster care system are acutely described... full of ‘the unfulfilled loss and promise,’" says Zócalo poetry editor Connie Voisine (@CLVoisine) of @sylinchan's new poem "To Paint Persimmons." Read it here: zps.la/49iZELy

How many times have I heard a version of this quote, in real life (in my own life), and with all the foster children I work with, and with each future youth? Don't forget this. #fostercare

April poem; Friday poem; brother poem, "To Paint Persimmons." Remembering people who have long gone: isn't that what poetry is, to continue after we've grown? Thank you, @ThePublicSquare & @CLVoisine. #fostercare #NationalPoetryMonth zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/04/05/syl…

"To Paint Persimmons" by Sylvia Chan (@sylinchan) is our latest #poem, selected by April curator and Z?calo poetry editor Connie Voisine (@CLVoisine). zps.la/49iZELy

This month I'm starting a new writing practice called THE AURELIE 30, in which I start/write something new every day in April, after an Aurelie Sheehan assignment. If you'd like to join me, it's easy. Info at aurelie30.org.

Birthday-Pisces feels courtesy of friend & Poetry Center. Another year 🌟.

Here's the news! Coming in 2025—Annulet Editions! Annulet Editions will publish one full-length collection of poetry and one work of literary criticism/prose a year. Submissions open May 12th, 2024. Read more (forever and) at annuleteditions.com

I really loved attending "Writing the Multilingual Poem" with @sylinchan, @gabbydozal, @_joseolivarez, @geramee_, and the endlessly entertaining Sophia Terazawa! So much fun.

TODAY: Writing the Multilingual Poem: Codeswitching Across Cultures aka my first organizing attempt with @gabbydozal, good friend & multilingual collaborator. 1:45-3 PM at 2102A, Street Level. Wearing my fav red sweater dress for good luck #AWP24 #LunarNewYear 🐉

The language we invited panelists and attendees of #AWP24 to share is below.

@10PesoBurial When I die, I want to bring their hot sauce recipe to my grave.

#AWP24 dance card. Can't wait to (re)connect with good people, to talk about disability justice and Chinese & German translations, & to celebrate Chinese New Year.🐉 @__eshani @jackieisapoet @jesilfa @Lizard_Eyes @gabbydozal @geramee_ @_joseolivarez Sophia Terazawa

See you soon, KC. #AWP24

Reading with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi, Leah Tieger, and @ArizonaMFA Aria Pahari & Sophia Terazawa for Wilding our Damage, an Offering. Wed, 11/29 at 1 PM EST (11 AM AZ time). We are reading less to devote space for a collective silence for Palestine. brooklynrail.org/events/2023/11…

@NeonScrawl Congrats all around! Happy to share our good news; if it wasn't for a friend, I wouldn't have know either 💕

Umm...Is that my name near the top of this Best American Essay 2023 notable mentions list? Thanks to @sylinchan for posting this image and congrats to her and Sandra Cisneros