Victoria Chang
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
This Saturday, I'll be leading an online poetry writing workshop, where we'll read together and write together. This is through Scotland's Push the Boat Out Festival. 9am PT/12pm ET. pushtheboatout.org/events/p...
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This Saturday, I'll be leading an online poetry writing workshop, where we'll read together and write together. This is through Scotland's Push the Boat Out Festival. 9am PT/12pm ET. pushtheboatout.org/events/p...
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What a build. What a final line.
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596322
#poem #books #writing
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596322
#poem #books #writing
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What a build. What a final line.
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596322
#poem #books #writing
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596322
#poem #books #writing
Grateful to Marie Howe and Rick Barot for their wonderful readings and presence at Poetry@Tech
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Grateful to Marie Howe and Rick Barot for their wonderful readings and presence at Poetry@Tech
There are a lot of wonderful poets in Singapore! Thank you all for sharing your words and books with me.
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There are a lot of wonderful poets in Singapore! Thank you all for sharing your words and books with me.
Very excited to welcome Marie Howe and Rick Barot to Poetry@Tech this Thursday! Please join us at the Walter G. Ehmer Theater at 6pm.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Very excited to welcome Marie Howe and Rick Barot to Poetry@Tech this Thursday! Please join us at the Walter G. Ehmer Theater at 6pm.
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Thank you @richardsiken.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social and Richie for these beautiful endorsements
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Thank you @richardsiken.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social and Richie for these beautiful endorsements
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It is such a great honor to help @victoriachang.bsky.social select the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize alongside Weijia pan and L.A. Johnson.
Send your manuscripts by November 30th!
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Send your manuscripts by November 30th!
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The Georgia Poetry Prize Welcomes Victoria Chang as Head Judge
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce that Victoria Chang will serve as head judge for the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is such a great honor to help @victoriachang.bsky.social select the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize alongside Weijia pan and L.A. Johnson.
Send your manuscripts by November 30th!
ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...
Send your manuscripts by November 30th!
ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...
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Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...
Victoria Chang: “The Swan”
A poem by Victoria Chang: “The thin shirtless / man fishing by / the river. The woman // by his side, smoking.“
yalereview.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...
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Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
yalereview.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
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Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."
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Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."
Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.
Last chance to register for Poetry@Tech's virtual craft talk with Rick Barot on syntax (this Saturday at 11am PT/2pm ET). Anyone can join! Link in bio to register.
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Last chance to register for Poetry@Tech's virtual craft talk with Rick Barot on syntax (this Saturday at 11am PT/2pm ET). Anyone can join! Link in bio to register.
Honored to serve as a Neustadt juror this year. Made new friends, saw many old friends.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Honored to serve as a Neustadt juror this year. Made new friends, saw many old friends.
Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley
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Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
October 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Thanks to University of British Columbia and Green College, and The Whole Cloth Reading Series for welcoming me so warmly. Pictured here: Bronwen Tate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Alix Ohlin, Neil Aitken.
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thanks to University of British Columbia and Green College, and The Whole Cloth Reading Series for welcoming me so warmly. Pictured here: Bronwen Tate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Alix Ohlin, Neil Aitken.
Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse
The UBC campus with all of its beautiful trees
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The UBC campus with all of its beautiful trees
At The University of British Columbia and Green College for the Whole Cloth Reading Series, I'll be reading the whole of With My Back to the World
October 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
At The University of British Columbia and Green College for the Whole Cloth Reading Series, I'll be reading the whole of With My Back to the World
No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok
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It was such an honor to give the keynote at the Decatur Book Festival last night. Thank you and thank you and thank you to contributors Victoria Chang and Aruni Kashyap for helping me bring THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT to live. And big love to everyone who joined us.
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It was such an honor to give the keynote at the Decatur Book Festival last night. Thank you and thank you and thank you to contributors Victoria Chang and Aruni Kashyap for helping me bring THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT to live. And big love to everyone who joined us.
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@victoriachang.bsky.social, you must stop being such a damn incredible poet. No, I'm kidding, you must never stop.
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)
To witness two objects grasping each other, is the worst
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October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@victoriachang.bsky.social, you must stop being such a damn incredible poet. No, I'm kidding, you must never stop.
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
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#Poetry --
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"The way poems, as you write them, seem to fly at first, but then fasten to the page, becoming arthritic before your eyes."
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
@victoriachang.bsky.social
"The way poems, as you write them, seem to fly at first, but then fasten to the page, becoming arthritic before your eyes."
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)
To witness two objects grasping each other, is the worst
poets.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#Poetry --
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
@victoriachang.bsky.social
"The way poems, as you write them, seem to fly at first, but then fasten to the page, becoming arthritic before your eyes."
poets.org/poem/swan-no...
@victoriachang.bsky.social
"The way poems, as you write them, seem to fly at first, but then fasten to the page, becoming arthritic before your eyes."
Thanks to Junior Library Guild for selecting EUREKA, my middle grade verse novel, as a Gold Standard Selection. Out in January by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers.
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Thanks to Junior Library Guild for selecting EUREKA, my middle grade verse novel, as a Gold Standard Selection. Out in January by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers.