Sylvia Chan

Poet. Advocate for foster kids. Author of WE REMAIN TRADITIONAL (CLP 2018). National Poetry Series finalist. & proud cyborg/amputee.

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

They're here. One month to go! Friends, please spread the word & preorder WE REMAIN TRADITIONAL. As I grow into my voice, I understand how important it is to stand for myself. I can only hope to remember this as I move forth. #firstbook #WeRemainTraditional #thedream 😍😭❤️

[Bodega Baddie @CAMONGHNE]

Been working on this anthology with @TyehimbaJess for the last year and I am SO THRILLED we finally get to announce it and open the process up for submissions. This is not just a love letter to Black letters, but a love letter to the communities that inspire Black letters. ✨

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

Available now! A free discussion guide for DISABILITY INTIMACY by @esmewang

Accessible PDF: https://t.co/4P5K6nlGD0

About the book: https://t.co/bnD0eCFmZl

[Civil Rights Corps @CivRightsCorps]

Today, we are launching the #Right2Hug Project because we believe everyone has the right to hug their family.

Unfortunately, millions of children in the US are being denied this right because jails have banned them from visiting, and hugging, their parents. 🧵

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

Thank you, @UAPoetryCenter, for always supporting my work. Check out their “A Glimpse into Poetic Asian America”—& have a listen to “Unasylumed, unarchived” while you’re at it. What a lineage. #AAPIHeritageMonth

[UA Poetry Center @UAPoetryCenter]

NEW Voca playlist!

Curated for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and spanning the years 1990-2023, this selection of work seeks to capture the aesthetic and thematic range of Asian American and Pacific Islander poets.

https://t.co/y7QV3qcpum

[Peripheries @_peripheries]

Reading & Q&A with Jane Miller this Wednesday, 4/17 at 4pm, CSWR Common Room @HarvardDivinity! Jane will present poems from Paper Banners (@copper_canyon_press 2023) & from more recent work. Zoom & in-person registration: https://t.co/Z86nNCDyQJ

[Zócalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare]

"The struggles of children in the foster care system are acutely described... full of ‘the unfulfilled loss and promise,’" says Zócalo poetry editor Connie Voisine (@CLVoisine) of @sylinchan's new poem "To Paint Persimmons." Read it here: https://t.co/WUGq0GHiug

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

How many times have I heard a version of this quote, in real life (in my own life), and with all the foster children I work with, and with each future youth? Don't forget this. #fostercare

[Zócalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare]

"Don’t forget this. Our guardian flicks
  the dish soap into your face, says solemnly,
   “I wash my hands clean of the situation
    and relinquish my rights to the state."

—@sylinchan, "To Paint Persimmons"
https://t.co/WUGq0GHiug

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

April poem; Friday poem; brother poem, "To Paint Persimmons." Remembering people who have long gone: isn't that what poetry is, to continue after we've grown?

Thank you, @ThePublicSquare & @CLVoisine. #fostercare #NationalPoetryMonth

https://t.co/OpidOG5cIT

[Zócalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare]

"To Paint Persimmons" by Sylvia Chan (@sylinchan) is our latest #poem, selected by April curator and Z?calo poetry editor Connie Voisine (@CLVoisine). https://t.co/WUGq0GHiug

[Ander Monson @angermonsoon]

This month I'm starting a new writing practice called THE AURELIE 30, in which I start/write something new every day in April, after an Aurelie Sheehan assignment. If you'd like to join me, it's easy. Info at https://t.co/WJHGNJLJfU.

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

Birthday-Pisces feels courtesy of friend & Poetry Center. Another year 🌟.

[Annulet @annuletpoetics]

Here's the news! Coming in 2025—Annulet Editions!

Annulet Editions will publish one full-length collection of poetry and one work of literary criticism/prose a year.

Submissions open May 12th, 2024. Read more (forever and) at https://t.co/i2sPkiUNli

[James Butler-Gruett @etinarcadia3go]

I really loved attending "Writing the Multilingual Poem" with @sylinchan, @gabbydozal, @_joseolivarez, @geramee_, and the endlessly entertaining Sophia Terazawa! So much fun.

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

TODAY: Writing the Multilingual Poem: Codeswitching Across Cultures aka my first organizing attempt with @gabbydozal, good friend & multilingual collaborator. 1:45-3 PM at 2102A, Street Level.

Wearing my fav red sweater dress for good luck #AWP24 #LunarNewYear 🐉

[RAWI @RAWInews]

The language we invited panelists and attendees of #AWP24 to share is below.

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

@10PesoBurial When I die, I want to bring their hot sauce recipe to my grave.

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

#AWP24 dance card. Can't wait to (re)connect with good people, to talk about disability justice and Chinese & German translations, & to celebrate Chinese New Year.🐉 @__eshani @jackieisapoet @jesilfa @Lizard_Eyes @gabbydozal @geramee_ @_joseolivarez Sophia Terazawa

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

See you soon, KC. #AWP24

[AWP @awpwriter]

Learn about what brought @jackieisapoet, @__eshani, @jesilfa, @sylinchan, and @lizard_eyes together to create the #AWP24 panel “When Every Word Is a Spoon: Disabled Writers on the Accommodations We Need.” https://t.co/H69sPa85fp

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

Reading with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi, Leah Tieger, and @ArizonaMFA Aria Pahari & Sophia Terazawa for Wilding our Damage, an Offering. Wed, 11/29 at 1 PM EST (11 AM AZ time).

We are reading less to devote space for a collective silence for Palestine.

https://t.co/EDL5FT8PIa

[Sylvia Chan @sylinchan]

@NeonScrawl Congrats all around! Happy to share our good news; if it wasn't for a friend, I wouldn't have know either 💕