Ching-In Chen is a multi-genre, border-crossing writer and the author of The Heart’s Traffic (Arktoi/Red Hen Press, 2009). Chen is the child of Chinese Immigrants, and is a Kundiman and Lambda Fellow and a member of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundations writing communities. A community organizer, Chen has worked in the Asian Read More
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The Lit Slam: upping the performance ante with audience-curated publication
Spoken word judged by a live audience with the winners to be printed in an annual journal. I sat down with co-creator Tatyana Brown to talk about how it works. “Poetry slams, which have been a great way to get audiences involved and interested in spoken word, tend to be shaped both by who the Read More