Victoria Chang - October 6, 2022

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Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang reads from her published works Obit (2020), Dear Memory (2021), and The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She also shares new, uncollected poems. Chang's poems touch upon grief from the death of her parents, as well as found material from family archives. She also reads work structured in a Japanese syllabic form called waka.

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Welcome
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by Diana Marie Delgado

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Introduction
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by Ander Monson

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Opening Remarks
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"Music"
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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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"My Mother's Teeth"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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"Sometimes all I have..."
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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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"Grief"
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Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. 

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"Dear Mother, (I have so many questions...)"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

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"I hear the phone ringing..."
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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

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"Me: have you heard from..." & "1975: Farming planting things..."
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Differs from published version. 

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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

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"Dear Grandmother,"
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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

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"Once you had to stand behind..."
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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

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"Was this your first job?..."
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Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

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"Far Along in the Story"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Losing a Language"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Snowfall"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Still Morning"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Rain at Night"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"The Gods"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"The Lovers"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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Excerpt from "Love Letters"
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Untitled #9, 1995"
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Chang, Victoria. "Untitled #9, 1995." Poetry, vol. 221, no. 1, October 2022, p. 11.

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"Friendship, 1963"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Chang, Victoria. "Friendship, 1963." American Poetry Review, vol. 51, no. 5, September/October 2022, p. 4.

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Victoria Chang
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
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