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Author Event: In Cahoots with the Rabbit God by Chen Chen with Joshua Nguyen
Tue, Dec 08
|JustBook-ish
In Cahoots with the Rabbit God is the debut collection of essays by the poet Chen Chen. The collection explores craft and the poet as an ethereal being! Chen Chen will be reading along side Joshua Nguyen, author of Come Clean.
Time & Location
Dec 08, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
Guests
About the event
Chen Chen is a poet and educator. His third book of poems, Quintessential Earthly Activities, is forthcoming from Boa Editions in spring 2027. His two previous collections are Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He has also written six chapbooks, most recently Love That For Us, a collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein, and a book of craft essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God, now available for preorder from Noemi Press (due to be released on December 1st).
A Kundiman community member, his honors include the Thom Gunn Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. His work appears in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Ploughshares, three editions of The Best American Poetry, two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. He…