Piera Chen

I write poems | Author @ Lonely Planet | Translator | Editor | Hong Kong Taipei Vancouver | Views mine

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

It snowed thrice in my 4 hrs at the Serta Larung Five Science Academy. Located in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, “Larung Gar” is the world’s largest school of Tibetan Buddhism. The 40,000 nuns & monks here reside in dormitories built on hillsides.

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Block printing in action at Derge Parkhang (Dege Sutra Printing Press; 徳格印經院) in Sichuan. The 18th century, press houses the world’s largest collection of Tibetan handcarved printing blocks. The dim, maze-like place brings to mind the works of Jin Yong, Eco and Borges.

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

@worldlyadventur @ebook_travel Why not? always do! 😀

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@ArgyrisSophia @SeventhQuarry Such beautiful, poignant poems.

[Anthropocene @anthro_poetry]

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @PieraChen 🍉

https://t.co/bwKyHVGTLE

[Canto Cutie Zine @Canto_cutie]

Hear all of “Lunch”, one of Piera Chen’s latest poems (@pierachen) at our virtual launch party December 23rd!

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

THIS - the latest Lonely Planet Taiwan, authored by me and Dinah Gardner - will be out on 15 September! Of the three editions of LP Taiwan I've authored so far, this is the best (If I may say so myself).😃

@lonelyplanet #lonelyplanet #taiwan #travel

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

🙏 @SkyIslandJournal sent me a postcard! Honoured to be in great company. What a delightful stamp!

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

‘I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.’

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.” —José Saramago https://t.co/CIyFWejbmN

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

fellow asians, please stop being so racist and embarrassing. ridding affirmative action won't help you. it just won't. also, getting into your top choice college is a really silly hill to die on. like, please. dream bigger.

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

I’ll have three poems in Anthropocene Poetry Journal in the coming months, including one dedicated to a dear friend who’s gone missing.

[FS Gossips @fs_gossips]

I look at these photos and they make me speechless. Yuzuru Hanyu for Elle. Simply divine.

#iceskate #iceskating #figureskate #figureskating #フィギュアスケート

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This Hong Konger is v happy to have a poem about this Taiwanese delicacy in the forthcoming (July) issue of the @SkyIslandJournal
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#poetry #poems #poets

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

Military tourism in Taiwan: a former defensive tunnel is being used for boat-rides. The mannequins are supposed to represent the soldiers who built the 700m-long tunnel during the Cold War. Whoever designed their look must have taken inspiration from Ken and Barbie.

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Lots of hairtail, a few four-finger threadfin... Hm, I’ll take the last yellow croaker, please.

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

City I dislike: Shantou
City I think is overrated: Amsterdam
City I like: Cartagena
City I love: Hong Kong
City I most feel myself in: Anywhere I’m exploring alone
City I still need to visit: St Petersburg
City I dream of living in: Rome
Favourite city of all time: Tokyo

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@luxurytravel City I dislike: Shantou
City I think is overrated: Amsterdam
City I like: Istanbul
City I love: Cartagena
City I most feel myself in: Hong Kong
City I still need to visit: St Petersburg
City I dream of living in: Rome
Favourite city of all time: Tokyo

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in different countries….

5. Comma fucker (Finland)
4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland)
3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway)
2. Counter of peas (Germany)
1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

[Matthew Stewart @roguestrands]

At poetry readings in Spain, the vast majority of the audience is usually made up of non-poets. They tend to be cultured people who attend poetry events much as they do classical concerts or the theatre. The key question is why such people seldom turn up at readings in the U.K...

[Piera Chen @PieraChen]

Taoist heaven as enacted by animatronics in Taiwan. There’s ‘Hell’ next door. Funny how mortals in these dioramas all wear plaid.