Victoria Chang

@victoriachang.bsky.social

Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.

Victoria Chang's poetry amazes me. To say she has range isnt quite right, it is more an openness to evolution. The elements and preoccupation remain but the branch and expand. Read her new book The Tree of Knowledge.

day 18 of the #sealeychallenge finally picked up Obit by Victoria Chang. this collection was on my radar long before I even started meaningfully engaging with poetry. was very excited and fortunate to finally find it through one of my local libraries!

The front cover of Obit by Victoria Chang (published by Copper Canyon Press) features a faded purplish-red newsprint background. It displays a repeating grid pattern of a photograph of the author alongside text styled like a newspaper obituary. The text is an excerpt from one of the poems within the collection. Bold, white, all-caps sans-serif letters spell out the title, author name, and subtitle: OBIT, Victoria Chang, and Poems.

There are also digital stickers proclaiming that Obit is a Pen America Literary Award Winner and fhat it was longlisted for a National Book Award. a clumsy photo of a section of the poem "I am a Miner. The Light Burns Blue." by Victoria Chang