Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, editor, teacher and former marketing consultant Victoria Chang about what writing in the third person makes possible, the liberation of formal constraints, mom-on-mom violence, how the literary community has changed over the years, how poetry finds us, shame, masks, letting poems tell you what to do, loving editing more than writing, community and difference, and the many kinds of literary and non-literary labor each of them does. They speak about Victoria’s recent book Barbie Chang and about Victoria’s forthcoming book, Obit, and so much more.
Books by Victoria Chang
Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon, 2017)
Is Mommy? (With Marla Frazee) (Beach Lane, 2015)
The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013)
Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008)
Circle (Crab Orchard/Southern Illinois University Press, 2005)
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (Editor) (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode
Chen Chen
Kristin Chang
Fatimah Asghar
Paige Lewis
Kaveh Akbar
Cathy Park Hong
Mary Ruefle
Louise Glück
Jorie Graham
Anne Carson
Terrance Hayes
Ilya Kaminsky
Other Relevant Links
Commonplace interview with Richard Siken
Commonplace interview with Ilya Kaminsky
Victoria Chang at McSweeney’s
Copper Canyon Press
Antioch University
CalArts School of Critical Studies
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Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
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