Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens, forthcoming from Sarabande Books in March 2020. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Michigan Quarterly Review, the Cincinnati Review, the Indiana Review, West Branch, Poetry Northwest, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she is an Albert C. Yates Fellow.
Reading List
Forgive Them for They Do Not Know What
Today: I can’t stop watching the video of the Pope yelling at the man in the crowd. The Pope is pulled forward so hard he nearly falls onto another enthusiastic fan in a chair. He is pissed! Yesterday: nada, boredom, routine snow on already salted streets, but today: A man assaulted the Pope by accident! […]
Heathen
On the military base, we prayed the Rosary nightly, and each night, I fell asleep. The Sorrowful Mysteries were my favorite. Between decades, interruptions— Between prayers were modern-day complaints, seat belts, shoe laces, sudden laughter that shimmered like apparitions wedged between Our Fathers. I fell asleep after the Agony in the Garden, and I dreamed […]
Momotaro in the Philippines
Here, peaches come from boxes that smell like Europe, from cans made of a tin-coated steel. I lie with the peaches soaking in saccharine darkness until freed. I don’t recognize the children who run toward me. Their faces like the feathers on the feet of birds. Their slippers repeating that melancholic drone. Wake up, they […]