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Today's poem is "Never Asking"

from Rattle

Madelyn Chen is a Chinese American poet currently writing in legal pads in Los Angeles. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her JD from Harvard Law School. Her poetry has been published in Westwind, Fire Poetry Journal, Threepenny Review, The Margins, and Rattle.

Other poems on the web by Madelyn Chen:
"prǝ-,nǝn(t)-sē-'ā-shǝn"
"Miss America"

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October 11, 2022:   "My Body Is Mine" by Amira Antoun Salameh (translated by Yafa al-Shayeb and Jennifer Jean)
September 27, 2022:   "One Good Memory" by Noah Arhm Choi
September 23, 2022:   "Elites" by Maia Siegel
September 22, 2022:   "The Warm Bed" by Lynne Knight
July 9, 2022:   "Visiting My Mother's Wars" by A.E. Wilberton
June 2, 2022:   "In the Checkout Line at Rite Aid," by Cati Porter
March 18, 2022:   "Divorce" by Rebecca Morton
March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" by Michelle Bitting
September 10, 2021:   "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" by Martha Silano
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May 17, 2021:   "House Song with Wonder Woman" by Siew David Hii
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July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
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