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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks to Junior Library Guild for selecting EUREKA, my middle grade verse novel, as a Gold Standard Selection. Out in January by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers.

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful hybrid craft anthology from Brink Literary Journal, edited by Alisha Jeddeloh

Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 4d

A beautiful and fun event with Saeed Jones and Aruni Kashyap at the Decatur Book Festival talking about the People’s Project, curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith.

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to Major Jackson for inviting me to the beautiful Vanderbilt campus. With Rick Hilles and Su Cho.

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 6d

Join Poetry@Tech for a Virtual Poetry Craft Talk with Rick Barot: Lavish Syntax. Oct. 25, 2pm ET/11am PT. Register here: gatech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Poetry@Tech Rick Barot Virtual Craft Talk on Syntax. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for Poetry@Tech's poetry craft talk with Rick Barot Lavish Syntax The problem at the heart of writing a poem is the problem of dramatization. That is, how do we dramatize in language—a very limited means—the dynamics of thought, sensation,

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to Shangyang Fang and UMass Boston MFA for the fun visit.

Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 12d

We had a wonderful evening at Poetry@Tech, thanks to Ada Limón and Rigoberto González

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 16d

Join Poetry@Tech this Thursday 9/25 for our Bourne Poetry Event, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Ada Limón and Rigoberto González. Reading starts at 6pm at the Walter E. Ehmer Theater, reception at 5:15pm.

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 18d

A lovely morning reading with @anisfieldwolf poets and meeting 2025 book award winner for poetry, Janice N. Harrington

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 18d

A beautiful evening at the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 19d

A gem from the Butler Efroymson Center for Creative Writing's library

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 19d

Chosen by the Lion, Linda Gregg

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 21d

The beautiful Efroymson Center for Creative Writing at Butler University

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 21d

Tonight at Butler University

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 22d

Poetry is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 27d

"I don't know if I could write if I were the only person on the planet. That’s what art is to me: a form of interaction and collaboration." Patricio Ferrari interviews Victoria Chang at Limelight Poetry. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/time-to-get-out-of-yourself/

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks to Patricio Ferrari for the conversation and LARB for publishing it our chat at the New York Public Library as part of the Limelight Poetry reading with yuniya edi kwon.

lareviewofbooks.org/article...

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · Sep 6

The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · Sep 4

Poetry@Tech launched its first email newsletter: Poetry@Tech Pulse. You can sign up here to learn about all things P@T: signup.e2ma.net/signup/2012...

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're thrilled to welcome Victoria Chang, award-winning poet & director of @PoetryatTech, as head judge of the Georgia Poetry Prize! Victoria will over see this year's submissions from 10/1-11/30. See blog for more!
https://loom.ly/hxyvDaQ
@UGACWP.
#GeorgiaPoetryPrize #poetry #poetryprize

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · Aug 29

An interesting way to organize a poetry reader/anthology, edited by Mark Yakich

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is perfect.

Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · Aug 25

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

I get it; AI is everywhere these days. Let this class be a bubble where it is not; where we learn by focusing on process, not product; where we embrace the friction and joy of expressing our own ideas in our own words; where we lean on our own imaginations, histories, and imperfections as we write our own imperfect human pieces.

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · Aug 15

Americans elevated the worst possible people, & they are doing everything they promised. So, @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social curated THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT to help folk connect to community and persevere.

I’m grateful to participate in one of the in-person book launch events!

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · Aug 17

@victoriachang.bsky.social Victoria Chang, With My Back to the World: Poems

She is amazing... and the way she has engaged with Agnes Martin, the artist/painter... emotionally and linguistically...

#sealeychallenge, #poetry, #poems, #agnesmartin

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