Carolyn Moore Reading Series: Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein
A Program of PCC's Humanities & Arts Initiative
Join us on Wednesday May 15th at 6:30 pm for a poetry event featuring the two May residents of PCC’s Writers House, Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein, as well as April resident Jae Nichelle, and local Portland poets Charity E. Yoro and Eric Tran. The reading, which will take place on PCC’s Southeast Campus in the Community Hall, is free and open to everyone.
Please contact residency Program Coordinator Justin Rigamonti with questions or to access reading packets by any of the poets: justin.rigamonti@pcc.edu
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Chen Chen’s second book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions), was a best book of 2022 according to the Boston Globe, Electric Lit, NPR, and others. It was also named a 2023 Notable Book by the American Library Association. His debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions), was long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including The New York Times and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. With Sam Herschel Wein and a brilliant team, he edits Underblong.
Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA from the University of Tennessee and were awarded a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Their third chapbook, Butt Stuff Flower Bush, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits Underblong. They have recent work in American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others.
Louisiana born and Portland-based, Jae Nichelle is the author of the poetry collection God Themselves and the chapbook The Porch (As Sanctuary). She was the inaugural poetry winner of the John Lewis Writing Award from the Georgia Writers Association, and her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2020, The Washington Square Review, The Offing Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. Her spoken word poems have been featured by Write About Now, Speak Up Poetry Series, and Button Poetry. She is a graduate of Tulane University.
Eric Tran is a queer Vietnamese writer and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (Diode Editions, Spring 2022) and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, 2020) as well as the chapbooks Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018) and Affairs with Men in Suits (Backbone Press, 2014), and he serves as an Associate Editor for Orison Books. Eric is also a psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon. He completed his fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at OHSU, his residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center, graduated from the UNC School of Medicine, and holds an MFA from UNC Wilmington.
Born and raised on the east side of Oʻahu, Charity E. Yoro is a poet and creative producer residing on the occupied territory of the Atfalati, Clatskanie, and Kalapuya with her partner, daughter, and feisty feline guide named Rumi. Her writing can be found in Frontier Poetry, PRISM International, Ruminate Magazine, Fourteen Hills, the New York Times’s Modern Love, and other publications. Her debut poetry collection, ten-cent flower & other territories, was published by First Matter Press in 2023.