HVWC Residency Reunion Reading

Join the faculty and residents of the first-ever HVWC Summer Residency for a virtual reunion reading! Meet the 2026 cohort of poets, prose writers, and our award-winning faculty, and learn details about the 2027 application process. This reading is pay-what-you-wish and open to the public.

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Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He…