Poet, Writer, Reader • Bourne Chair in Poetry, Georgia Tech • Linktree: https://xitter.cf/t.co/mc2qVRPd5E • IG: https://xitter.cf/t.co/cm8V0r2D6Q
Joined November 2012
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Thanks London Literature Festival for a great night of poetry @southbankcentre @DUALIPA, Mustafa, @mafiasafia
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Acclaimed poet Victoria Chang will talk about her poetry at @BostonCollege on October 28 at 7 p.m. Chang’s poetry collection, 'Tree of Knowledge,' is a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry. bcbookmarks.com/2026/10/19/p…
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🎉 Today is the pub day for THE STORY OF THE BODY: POEMS OF ILLNESS & RECOVERY, and I couldn’t be more thrilled that this book is in the world. This is the book I wished I’d had when I was very sick. It's an oddly comforting and uplifting read, I find! 💙
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Congratulations Sara Novic, author of Mother Tongue, and Victoria Chang, author of Tree of Knowledge, on being shortlisted for the National Book Awards!
So honored Tree of Knowledge is a finalist for the National Book Award. @fsgbooks @CorsairBooks
Please join Poetry@Tech on October 10, 11am ET/8am PT online for a virtual craft lecture (on the Poetic Image) by the esteemed poet, Dana Levin. Register with the QR code click on this link: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
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#booktube My latest set of book reviews for
Hernan Diaz “Ply”
Mark Haber “Lesser Ruins”
Steve Tomasula “Vas: An Opera in Flatland”
Karen Solie “Wellwater”
Victoria Chang “Tree Of Knowledge”
Lambros Fatsis “Policing The Beats”
youtu.be/COVxt3CD_tU
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Congrats to Victoria Chang on her National Book Award nomination! Read our interview with her from last year:
"I don't know if I could write if I were the only person on the planet. That’s what art is to me: a form of interaction and collaboration." Patricio Ferrari interviews @VChangPoet at Limelight Poetry. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Atlanta, join us Thursday/tomorrow at 6pm for a wonderful reading with @gabbat and @itsamule, and a celebration of @poetrytech and its 25th anniversary!
Honored and grateful that Tree of Knowledge is included with these beautiful books. @fsgbooks
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Anna Nguyen on the preoccupation with trees in Victoria Chang’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 and 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒. She explores how Chang uses them to reflect on memory and mortality.
chajournal.com/2026/09/14/vi…
Grateful to Anna Nguyen and Cha Journal for the review of Tree of Knowledge and The Trees Witness Everything. chajournal.com/2026/09/14/vi… @CopperCanyonPrs @fsgbooks
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"All the deaths have taken on new forms, / suspended in air, shapes never touching but in / motion. Maybe this is beauty. Maybe derailed beauty is still beauty."
Three poems by Victoria Chang @VChangPoet in Amsterdam Review
amsterdamreview.org/three-by…
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ALT Hemlock, 1956 A wooden door in front of everything. A door on my country. A door on the lake. My poems prefer wooden hunting dogs. If I say there is a door on my heart in the poem, then there is. Now I can open this door. The door is a short door though. I must kneel down to crawl in, drag my body through with my wooden elbows. I bump into my wooden mother who is also crawling in my heart. She smiles so large at me that her suffering lights up the tunnel. I can now see my
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In 2020, i nearly died from a 3day coma
One of the first books I read in early 2021 was @VChangPoet extraordinary sui generis “Obit”
Ive read every book 2x since
Chang’s newest “Tree of Knowledge” a remarkable exploration of loss, memory, meaning & family history
Brilliant
Thank you to Interabang Books in Dallas! They also have a fantastic poetry selection—be sure to check them out. @interabangbooks @fsgbooks
Grateful to Sewanee Review for allowing me to turn a talk I gave at Napa Valley Writers' Conference into a craft essay. thesewaneereview.com/article… @sewaneereview
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.@BostonCollege will host acclaimed poet Victoria Chang on Oct. 28.
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Thanks to Eric Weiskott and The Cincinnati Review for the interview about Tree of Knowledge. cincinnatireview.com/intervi… @CincinnReview @fsgbooks
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3 years ago this Labour Day Weekend, I went on a 3-day writing retreat to put together the first draft of my book manuscript
“A Bedlam of Stars”published in early 2027
3 poets had a big impact that weekend on my thinking
@VChangPoet @PoetKimHyesoon & Lucie Brock-Broido
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