My poems are often braver than I am. They can say things I’m not ready to, yet. 

—from an interview at Mud Season Review

The Poetry Question - “TPQ20: Episode 11 - Chen Chen” (by Courtney & Chris Margolin)

Poetry Off the Shelf (Poetry Foundation) - “Technically Roommates” (by Helena de Groot)

Words and Sh*t Podcast - “featuring Chen Chen & Sam Herschel Wein” (by Chibbi & Raqui)

Counterclock - "APA Writer Series: Chen Chen On the Baggage of Language" (by Rachel Lu)

Blue Mountain Review - Cover + Interview (by Nicole Tallman)

32 Poems - “Not Just the Zany and the Zingy: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Cate Lycurgus)

Fortune Cookie Conversations (United Chinese Americans) - “with Chen Chen” (by May Tang)

Lantern Review blog - “Poetry for an Exhausted World: A Conversation with Chen Chen” (by Karen Zheng)

Queer Words podcast - “Conversation with Chen Chen” (by Wayne Goodman)

Stonecoast MFA - “Speaking of Poetry in a Time of Pandemic: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Linda Mahal)

wildness - “An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Michelle Tudor) 

Planet China - “Exploring the Chinese LGBTQ community in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad” (pp. 35-38, by Dominique Musorrafiti)

(585) Magazine - “Further Possibilities: Renowned poet makes Rochester home” (by Christine Green) 

Hobart - “Chen Chen Interview” (by Daniel Pieczkolon)

Gaysian Third Space - “Follower Friday: chenchenwrites” 

Los Angeles Review of Books: China Channel - “Let Not-Knowing Push You Somewhere New” (by Urvashi Bahuguna) 

Winter Tangerine - “I Forget Myself/My Power When I’m Not in Conversation with Other Creative Minds: an Interview with Chen Chen" (by francesca ekwuyasi) 

Poets & Writers - “The Whole Self: Our Thirteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets” (by Dana Isokawa)

Asian American Writers Workshop - “Writing the Families We Want: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Yanyi) 

The Lifted Brow, reprinted on Lit Hub - “Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Santos Perez in Conversation” 

VIDA - “Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – Chen Chen” 

From the Fishouse - “Q&A with advice to young poets” and “Q&A on a favorite poem”

Sine Theta Magazine - “Conversation: Chen Chen Writes” (by Emily Chen)

Michigan Quarterly Review - “A List of Further Possibilities: An Interview with Chen Chen” (by Allison Peters)

The Ellis Review - “Migration Pattern: Chen Chen” (by Valerie Wu)

Fjords Review - “Poetry Interview with Chen Chen” (by Jennifer Parker)

The Rumpus Poetry Club - “Chat with Chen Chen” (by Brian Spears)

PoetryLA - “Chen Chen: A Poem By Series” (by Lisa Grove)

Lone Star Literary - “Poet Chen Chen on arriving and belonging, the craft of writing, and Texas” (by Kay Ellington) 

Mud Season Review - “Writing Is Part of How I Resist” (by Erin Post)

Dustin Brookshire’s Poet Profile - “Chen Chen” 

Out.com - “‘Queer People are Making Beautiful Worlds:’ Chen Chen on his Debut Poetry Collection” (by Thora Siemsen) 

The Adroit Journal - “Conversations with Contributors: Chen Chen” (by Audrey Zhao)

Platypus Press FIVES - “Five Things with Chen Chen”

Trish Hopkinson’s Call for Submissions - “NO FEE Submission call & editor interview — Underblong” with co-editor Sam Herschel Wein

Sundress Publications' Lyric Essentials - “Lyric Essentials: Chen Chen Reads ‘Lone Star Kundiman’ by Patrick Rosal” 

TheThe Poetry - “Infoxicated Corner: Interview with Chen Chen” (by Fox Frazier-Foley)

Sundress Publications’ SAFTAcast - “Episode 55 – Chen Chen!”

Lantern Review - “On the Chapbook and the ‘Possibilities of Risk’: A Conversation with Chen Chen and Margaret Rhee”

Up the Staircase Quarterly - “The Landing with Chen Chen” (by Rhiannon Thorne)

PBS Newshour - “Chen Chen on writing poetry while Chinese, American and gay” (by Corinne Segal)

Writing like an Asian - “Five Qs with Chen Chen” 

PANK - “The Lightning Room with Chen Chen” (by Diana Clarke)

Driftwood Press - On “The Tease” (pp. 37-39)