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National Poetry Month: Adrienne Chung

About Blog Post Apr 1, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff
National Poetry Month: Adrienne Chung Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian Our National Poetry Month poet for today is Adrienne Chung. Chung's debut poetry collection was "Organs of Little Importance," published in October as part of the Penguin Poets series. Its title is from Darwin's "On the Origin of Species." From the publisher's description: "Chung collects and preserves psychological debris as one would care for precious heirlooms, revealing their surprising potential as sites of meaning and connection." The collection was one of the five winners of the 2022 National Poetry Series, a prestigious literary award designed to promote emerging poets. It was selected by the poet Solmaz Sharif, who said of the collection: "Chung names the isolations, the absurdities, the machinations of our mediated moments. Underpinning these poems of desire and observation, the difficult retrievals of a fraught mother daughter relationship. This is a book of presence and alienation that assays as often as it represents. Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Chung leaves a charred wake." To get a taste of Chung's poetry, you can find links to a number of poems and a couple of interviews with the author and more at the author's website. Read some poems by Adrienne Chung today!
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