Journalist Michelle Chen Breaks Into the Poetic Genre

New York, NY, July 12, 2013 --(PR.com)-- As a journalist, Michelle Chen has contributed to various independent media projects and outlets, including Alternet, Ms. Magazine, Newsday, and her old zine, cain. In addition to her work as a columnist for Colorlines.com and a contributing editor with In These Times Magazine, she has reported in China and Palestine and co-produced a public radio program on Asian America and the diaspora. At Yale University, she founded a zine library and alternative media resource center. She is currently in her native Manhattan, pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the City University of New York. Elsewhere along the way, she’s conducted ethnographic research as a Fulbright fellow in Shanghai, painted houses in Alexandria, dug through earthquake rubble in Haiti, and checked coats at a West Village jazz club. It was in that coatroom where she reluctantly found herself one night beginning this collection of poetry, "Baby Pepper."

“This neighborhooud paints itself anew each morning
and today it shines.
Getting ready
to make noise,
to declare independence—
that thing they do on all other days
without knowing
how to say,
just how to live.” –Excerpt from “Astoria, July Fourth,” Baby Pepper.

($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-04-6, LCCN: 2011938623, PS3603.H453 B33 2011, 52pp)

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