Ching-In Chen

✨ Shiny City Book Tour ✨ Reading Tues, Dec 9, 7p PT, Long Beach, CA: Lineage & Light at @kubo.lb with @cathylinhche (BECOMING GHOST), @jasonbayani (EVERYONE I LOVE, ALIVE), Michelle Peñaloza @pennyloafa (ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS)

Just when I think things can't possibly get any dumber...

Looking for poems as part of Redmond Poet Laureate Read Local Eat Local project from poets local to Redmond and surrounding areas on the themes of food, harvest, intercultural exchange & community, no more than 16 lines! To send poems for consideration, https://bit.ly/RedmondPoems by July 1!

First Thursday Opening & Artist Reception for Eight Years of Inscape AiR: Resistance & Belonging at the Historic Immigration Building at Seattle's 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 Station (303 S Jackson St | Top floor)! 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: June 5-August 9, 2025, Wed-Sat 11am-5pm

Reading @soliloquyfinearts (2232 SE Clinton) in Portland tonight/Friday, 6-8p as part of @ekphraestivalpdx's 2025 art/poetry collaboration! I wrote poems in response to Pearlyn Tan & Susan Jones's visual art! [image description in alt text]

Earth Speaks poetry reading today/Tuesday April 15, 2-3:30pm in University of Washington Bothell Library (LB1-205)

Join @uwbmfa From the Convergence Zone conversation on Micropress Publishing with alum & Run Your Mouth Press editors Amy Hirayama & Simon Wolf this Thursday, March 13, 6-7p Pacific Time @ UW2-021 (Performance Studio)!

Tonight/Monday, March 3, 6:30-9:30p!
I'll be reading at @litnightswa salon (78 First Ave NE, Issaquah) featuring me, Aaron Fairchild, Maggie Mertens, Shankar Narayan (Postcards from the New World, Paper Nautilus), Once Upon A Dance & Dujie Tahat! www.literarynights.com

Heading to Portland State University for Build As We Fight Symposium tomorrow/Friday, February 28! @anneiled & I will be presenting "Organizing & Dreaming T4T Care Networks" on the “We Take Care of US: Acompañamiento, Mutual Aid, and Networks of Care" panel, 4:10-5:10p in Lincoln Hall 115.

I'll be reading as part of a celebration for the 'Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation' @creatureconserve anthology @thirdplacebooks Seward Park with fellow contributors Miranda Mellis, Jane Wong & Rena Priest on Mon, Feb 24 @ 7p! [imagedescription in alttext]

[Image Description: Text reads: Convergence Zone | Critical Collaboration with Jean Toomer's Cane Featuring | Diane Exavier | Bill Lowe | Carlos Sirah | Anne de Marcken | Please join the MFA for Creative Writing and Poetics Cultural Change Seminar for a Conversation on Critical Collaboration | February 20 | 6:00-7:30PM PST] #jeantoomercane #dianeexavier #billlowe #carlossirah #annedemarcken #genevievehicks #collaboration #experimentalwriting #fromtheconvergencezone #uwbothellmfa

Virtual UWB MFA From the Convergence Zone conversation on Critical Collaboration with Jean Toomer's CANE this Thursday, February 20, 6-7:30p Pacific Time with co-editors Diane Exavier, Carlos Sirah & Anne de Marcken & contributor Bill Lowe! Registration for Zoom link: https://bit.ly/canecollab

UW Bothell MFA From the Convergence Zone reading & conversation Thursday, February 13, 6-7:30p @ UW2-021 (Performance Studio) with Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal & JD Pluecker as we celebrate their new books, 'Watcha' and 'Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas.'!

Protest @ Seattle Children's Hospital to Protect Gender-Affirming Youth Healthcare
Sat, 2/8: noon (no end time listed)
Sun, 2/9: 10am-12p
Mon, 2/10: 5-7 pm Healthcare workers for Palestine
Fri 2/14: Dance for Gender Affirming Youth Healthcare (details to come). [image description in alt text]

[image description: white text on blue background reads 'Bellingham Review & Paper Whale | Fire & Story | featuring contributors: Ching-In Chen, Tennison S. Black, & Miriam Milena | January 24, 2025 6:00 PM @ The Story Stage | Bellingham Waterfront | details: www.fireandstory.com

Reading liberation spells as part of the Fire & Story festival tonight/Friday, January 24, 6p with Tennison S. Black & Miriam Milena @ Bellingham Waterfront on the Story Stage! details: www.fireandstory.com [image description in alt text]