Barbie Chang

She currently teaches creative writing at Chapman University and the Orange County School of the Arts.

Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, At Length, Blackbird, Chaparral, Diode, Fourteen Hills, Harvard Review, Manoa, Meridian, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Narrative, New England Review, New Republic, Poetry, Poetry International, Salt Hill, Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Waxwing.

Thanks to Michael Wiegers and Copper Canyon Press for everything you do for poetry.

Thanks to the Guggenheim Foundation for a fellowship and support.

at some point we are all
disappointments who
can’t possibly care for other

good things are
often in pieces

and the difference between truth and
everything else is that you can see everything else

will try to welt you wilt you weld
you do not let it italicize you

until you see that every woman

begins and ends with another woman