Marilyn Chin - November 16, 2023

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Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin reads from her sixth collection, Sage (2023), sharing poems that employ humor, puns, rhyme, allusions to Chinese and English literature, and a wide array of traditional and modified verse forms. Chin opens the reading by performing from memory two poems from A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (2018).

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Susan Briante

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Opening Remarks
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"How I Got That Name"
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Chin, Marilyn. A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018.

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"Blues on Yellow"
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Chin, Marilyn. A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018.

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"Looking for the Sage"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"You Go, Me Stay, Two Autumns"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"If (Not by Rudyard Kipling)"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Twenty-Five Haiku"
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Chin, Marilyn. Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018. 

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"Lockdown Impromptku (folio 1)"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Solitary Animal"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Shadowless Shadow"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Girl Sage"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Advice (for E)"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"A Remembrance for David Wong Louie"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"The Ballad of Student X"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Melon"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Cherry"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Onion (not a fruit)"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Peach (for Paul Gauguin)"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Eggplant"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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"Bowl"
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Chin, Marilyn. Sage. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. 

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Marilyn Chin
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Paola Valenzuela
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