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Today's poem is "Triple Sonnet for Batman Villains and Whatever This Is"

from Colorado Review

Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of most recently, BABE (Diode Editions 2021), in addition to Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Editor Emeritus of Hobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. They were the 2021 Resident Artist for Toward One Wisconsin.

Other poems by Dorothy Chan in Verse Daily:
March 26, 2019:   "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead" "Dad thinks my forehead is too Godzilla, too Tarzan,..."

Books by Dorothy Chan:

Other poems on the web by Dorothy Chan:
Two poems
Four poems
Four poems
Three poems
Two poems
"A Triple Sonnet About Queer Girl x Straight Girl Friendships"
Two poems
"Triple Sonnet for Dennis Rodman, #91, on my Television Screen"
"Psychic Crush of the Week"
"Triple Sonnet for Corn Soup"
"Triple Sonnet for My Mother's Full-On Soap Opera Fantasy"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"XIII."
Three poems
Two poems
"Composition"
"Ode to Lasagna"
Two poems
Four poems
"Centerfold: Best Picture"

Dorothy Chan's Website.

Dorothy Chan on Twitter.

About Colorado Review:

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Colorado Review * 9105 Campus Delivery * Department of English * Colorado State University * Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
Poetry Editors: Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, Camille T. Dungy & Matthew Cooperman

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