Poem: "Ode To Rereading Rimbaud In Lubbock, Texas" By Chen Chen
"So why isn’t Lubbock the new Fire Island or P-town? For months I dreamt it was, could be."
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and forthcoming from BOA Editions in spring 2017. A Kundiman fellow, Chen’s work also appears in two chapbooks and publications such as Poetry, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, and The Best American Poetry. He is currently a PhD student in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University and lives in Lubbock with his partner, Jeff Gilbert. For more, visit chenchenwrites.com.
"So why isn’t Lubbock the new Fire Island or P-town? For months I dreamt it was, could be."
"So why isn’t Lubbock the new Fire Island or P-town? For months I dreamt it was, could be."