Mary Jean Chan
Poems
Online Publications
"what my mother (a poet) might say", The Poetry Review
"//", Ambit Magazine
"inheritance", "speaking in tongues", Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art
"To the Grandmother Who Mistook Me for a Boy", Callaloo Journal
"They Would Have All That", The London Magazine
"What My Diary Might Look Like", "On Losing Face So the Body Comes Back", The Scores: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
"One Breath", Commended, Resurgence Poetry Prize 2016
"Wet Nurse", Winner, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2016 (ESL)
Reviews
Reviewer: Mary Jean Chan
Published by U.S. Studies Online: Forum for New Writing (2017)
The one-day symposium held at the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) at the University of Oxford on ‘Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000’ featured an arresting array of speakers from both sides of the Atlantic...
Published by the Blog of the Race and Resistance Research Programme at TORCH, University of Oxford (2016)
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ haunting letter to his teenage son, about what it means to inhabit a black body within the conflicted embrace of white America...
A Review of Two Debut Collections by Kayo Chingonyi and Nick Makoha
Published by Oxford Poetry XVII.i (Summer 2017)
In Kumukanda’s central sequence “calling a spade a spade”, Kayo Chingonyi introduces an epigraph by Saul Williams, observing that “the subconscious process of healing…is something like how old schoolers would say you heal from a snake bite..."
Panels
Organizer: Mary Jean Chan
Panel on Diversity in British Publishing
Date: February 24th, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 2-4PM
Address: 11 Bedford Square, WC1B 3RF
This poetry panel will feature distinguished members of the poetry and publishing sector in the UK, who shall discuss recent diversity trends in British poetry publishing.
Speakers:
Kayo Chingonyi, Poet
Emma Paterson, Literary Agent at Rogers, Coleridge and White
Nathalie Teitler, Director of the Complete Works Program
Kish Widyaratna, Editorial Assistant at Picador
An Evening of Poetry on Chinese Identit(ies), Place and Politics
Date: January 27th, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 7:30-9:30PM
Address: Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, WC1N 2AN
This poetry event aims to interrogate notions of Chineseness, in relation to concepts of home, place and diaspora. There will be a reading from poets, followed by a discussion and Q&A session.
Speakers:
Sarah Howe, Poet
Hannah Lowe, Poet
Jennifer Wong, Poet
