An Online Poetry Reading Series

Crucible is an online poetry reading series, presented by Glass Poetry Press, and live-streamed on YouTube Live.

May 21, 2020

7:00PM EST
Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein

This event is free. Clicking on the tickets below will allow you to make a donation to the two authors.
All funds received through the ticket-donations will be evenly split among the two authors.

Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books recently published the UK edition. With Sam Herschel Wein, he wrote the chapbook GESUNDHEIT! — out now from Glass Poetry Press. Together they also run the journal Underblong. Chen has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence.
(photo credit: Paula Champagne)

Purchase When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities from BOA Editions here.
Purchase GESUNDHEIT! from Glass Poetry Press here.

Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a Chicago-based poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. Their second chapbook, GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Chen Chen, was part of the 2019-2020 Glass Poetry Press Series. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent work can be found in Moon City Review, Sundog Lit, and Bat City Review, among others.

Purchase GESUNDHEIT! from Glass Poetry Press here.