Marilyn Chin - Wikipedia Marilyn Chin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Marilyn Chin Born Mei Ling Chin 1955 Hong Kong; Occupation Writer Language English Citizenship USA Alma mater University of Iowa Website www.marilynchin.org Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American[1] poet and writer, an activist[2] and feminist,[3][4] an editor and Professor of English. She is well-represented in major canonical anthologies and textbooks and her work is taught all over the world. Marilyn Chin's work is a frequent subject of academic research[5] [6] and literary criticism.[7][8] Marilyn Chin has read her poetry at the Library of Congress.[9] Contents 1 Life 2 Awards and Honors 2.1 Residencies 3 Selected bibliography 4 References 5 External links Life[edit] She grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family emigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and a B.A. from University of Massachusetts [10] Her poetry focuses on social issues, especially those related to Asian American [11] feminism and bi-cultural identity.[12] Marilyn Chin has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the United Artists Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, the SeaChange fellowship from the Gaia Foundation, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, five Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[13] She is featured in several authoritative anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry,[14] The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women,[15] The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Unsettling America, The Open Boat and The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry. She was interviewed by Bill Moyers and featured in his PBS series "The Language of Life."[16] Her poem “The Floral Apron” was introduced by Garrison Keillor on the PBS special “Poetry Everywhere."[17]” It was also chosen by the BBC to represent the region of Hong Kong during the 2012 Olympics in London. Marilyn Chin is professor emerita at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.[18] In January 2018, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.[19] Awards and Honors[edit] 2020 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize [20] 2019 The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature [21] 2018 Academy of American Poets Chancellor [22] 2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for "Hard Love Province" [23] Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio Two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships 2007 United States Artists Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship Five Pushcart Prize Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan The SeaChange Fellowship from the Gaea Foundation 1995 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Residencies[edit] Civitella Ranieri Foundation [24] Yaddo MacDowell Colony Lannan Foundation Djerassi Foundation Selected bibliography[edit] Poetry Dwarf Bamboo Greenfield Review Press, 1987, ISBN 9780912678719 The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty Milkweed Editions, 1994, ISBN 9780915943876; Milkweed Editions, 2009, ISBN 9781571314390 Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, ISBN 9780393324532 Hard Love Province: Poems W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, ISBN 9780393240962 A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, ISBN 9780393652178 Fiction Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. W. W. Norton & Company. 2009. ISBN 9780393077278. Edited Anthologies Victoria M. Chang, ed. (2004). "Forward". Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252071744. Ken Weisner; Marilyn Chin; David Wong Louie, eds. (1991). Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian Anthology. Quarry West. Translations Ai Qing (1985). The Selected Poems of Ai Qing. Translated by Marilyn Chin and Eugene Eoyang. Yoshimasu Gozo (1980). Devil's Wind: A Thousand Steps or More. Translated by Marilyn Chin. Oakland University. Scholarship Chin's work is the subject of a number of scholarly essays. A recent one explores the ironic voices in "Rhapsody in Plain Yellow" that challenge self-hatred and self colonization.[25] References[edit] ^ Gery, John (April 2001). "Mocking My Own Ripeness: Authenticity, Heritage, and Self-Erasure in the Poetry of Marilyn Chin". LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (12): 25–45. ^ Dorothy Wang (2013). "Chapters 3 and 4". Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry. www.sup.org. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804783651. ^ Mc Cormick, Adrienne (Spring 2000). "'Being Without': Marilyn Chin's 'I' Poems as Feminist Acts of Theorizing". Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism. 6 (2): 37–58. ^ Allison Marion, ed. (2002). Poetry Criticism. 40. reprint of ‘Being Without’. Gale Group. pp. 18–27. ^ Catherine Cucinella (2010). "Writing the Body Palimpsest". Poetics of the Body: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230620889. ^ Anastasia Wright Turner (2013). "Marilyn Chin's Dialectic of Chinese Americanness". In Cheryl Toman (ed.). Defying the Global Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studie. Teneo Press. ISBN 978-193484484-7. ^ Steven G. Yao (2010). "Are You Hate Speech or are You a Lullaby?". Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity. Global Asias Series. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199730339. ^ Hsiao, Irene (Fall 2012). "Broken Chord: Sounding Out the Ideogram in Marilyn Chin's Rhapsody in Plain Yellow". Melus: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 37 (3): 25–45. doi:10.1353/mel.2012.0046. S2CID 161068535. Retrieved April 1, 2018. ^ "Marilyn Chin is a "Witness to History" | From the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Literature at the Library of Congress". blogs.loc.gov. Rizzo, Caitlin. 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2018-03-25.CS1 maint: others (link) ^ Poets.org ^ Cheung, King-Kok (2014). "Slanted Allusions: Bilingual Poetics and Transnational Politics in Marilyn Chin and Russell Leong" (PDF). Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 21.1. Excerpt in "Amerasia Journal" 37.1/ Spring 2011 pp.45-58. doi:10.1215/10679847-2383903. S2CID 145194907.CS1 maint: location (link) ^ "Chin, Marilyn". Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature. Infobase Publishing. 2009. p. 107. ISBN 9781438109107. ^ Voices from the Gaps Biography ^ Ramazani, Jahan; O'Clair, Robert; Ellmann, Richard (2003). The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 2 (3rd ed.). ISBN 0393977927. ^ Gilbert, Sandra M.; Gubar, Susan (2007). The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English. 2 (3rd ed.). ISBN 978-0393930146. ^ The Language of Life ^ Poertry Everywhere ^ "Marilyn Chin" Poets.org ^ "Marilyn Chin" Poets.org ^ "2020 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize". ^ "2019 LITERATURE AWARD WINNERS". ^ "Marilyn Chin, Kwame Dawes, and Marie Howe Named Academy of American Poets Chancellors". ^ "84th Annual California Book Awards Winners". ^ "Civitella Ranieri". 5 December 2018. ^ "12 Poetry Books To Diversify National Poetry Month". Bustle. External links[edit] External media Audio The poem 'Blues on Yellow' from Rhapsody in Plain Yellow An excerpt from Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen Video The poem 'The Floral Apron' at Poetry Everywhere on YouTube The poem 'Barbarian Sweet' at UCTV Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marilyn Chin. Marilyn Chin's Official Website Essay by Chin on American Poetry Parmar, Nissa (November 2014). ""Double Happiness": an interview with Marilyn Chin". Contemporary Women's Writing. Oxford Journals. 8 (3): 251–261. doi:10.1093/cww/vpu012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Chin's Profile at Modern American Poetry Academy of American Poets Authority control BNF: cb14649065b (data) GND: 129409014 ISNI: 0000 0001 1636 2178 LCCN: n88045226 MBA: 1b79b031-c731-4d03-a3d6-fa83b9f2e58d NKC: xx0212079 NTA: 339141131 SNAC: w6d52pt2 SUDOC: 200392425 VIAF: 47840838 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n88045226 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marilyn_Chin&oldid=999835064" Categories: American writers of Chinese descent Living people 1955 births Hong Kong poets American women activists American feminists Poets from Oregon University of Iowa alumni American women poets PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners Writers from Portland, Oregon 21st-century American women writers Hong Kong women activists 21st-century American poets San Diego State University faculty Hong Kong women writers Hong Kong emigrants to the United States Activists from Oregon Hidden categories: CS1 maint: others CS1 maint: location Commons category link is on Wikidata CS1 maint: ref=harv Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages العربية Français Bahasa Indonesia مصرى Bahasa Melayu Edit links This page was last edited on 12 January 2021, at 05:21 (UTC). 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