Critical Literary Consumption
Critical Literary Consumption
Anna Nguyen
Queer Friendship & Queer Poetics (with Chen Chen & Sam Herschel Wein)
54 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2026 at 5:26 pm.
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Best friends Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein discuss their collaborative chapbook, Love That For Us, published by & Change Poetry. They share how their friendship and poetics formed, that fateful residency in Portland, Oregon, pop culture as critical history, and silliness and queer joy. As they are long-distance friends, Chen and Sam also reflect on spatial and physical revising for emotional impact, and how co-editing Underblong has helped them co-create, co-write, and co-revise, and disagree.