Jennifer Chang - September 4, 2025

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Reading Series
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Poetry Center
Jennifer Chang

Jennifer Chang reads from her third collection, An Authentic Life (2024), which pushes back against fathers and father-figures as it considers new sources of knowledge for making sense of life. She also reads briefly from her first two books, The History of Anonymity (2008) and Some Say the Lark (2017), and she closes with a new, unpublished poem.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Francisco Cantú

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"Pastoral"
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Chang, Jennifer. The History of Anonymity. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. 

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"An Authentic Life"
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Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"Hydrangeas"
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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"Dialogues (Against Literature)"
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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"Yesterday's Myth"
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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"My Own Private Patriarchy"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"On the Soul"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"Patsy Cline"
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Chang, Jennifer. Some Say the Lark. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2017.

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"Freedom in Ohio"
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Chang, Jennifer. Some Say the Lark. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2017.

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"Again a Solstice"
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Chang, Jennifer. Some Say the Lark. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2017.

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"An Essay on War"
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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"Time, Rampant and Flourishing"
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Chang, Jennifer. An Authentic Life. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

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"Tree or Fable"
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Uncollected.

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Jennifer Chang
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
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