Marianne Chan

Oct 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Esteban C Rodriguez |Esteban M Rodríguez |January Gill O’Neil |Marianne Chan |Dan Leach

Reading Lists Abbie Kiefer recommends poems about the complexities of connection between a place and its people When asked in an interview about her relationship to her home state, Maine novelist Elizabeth Strout balked. “That’s like asking me what’s my relationship with my own body,” she said. “It’s just my DNA.” That’s how I feel too—that Maine, where I was born and lived until my mid-20s, is so central to my selfhood that its significance is impossible to articulate. I can’t stop trying...

Oct 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Esteban C Rodriguez |Esteban M Rodríguez |January Gill O’Neil |Marianne Chan |Dan Leach

Reading Lists Abbie Kiefer recommends poems about the complexities of connection between a place and its people When asked in an interview about her relationship to her home state, Maine novelist Elizabeth Strout balked. “That’s like asking me what’s my relationship with my own body,” she said. “It’s just my DNA.” That’s how I feel too—that Maine, where I was born and lived until my mid-20s, is so central to my selfhood that its significance is impossible to articulate. I can’t stop trying...

Oct 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Esteban C Rodriguez |Esteban M Rodríguez |January Gill O’Neil |Marianne Chan |Dan Leach

Reading Lists Abbie Kiefer recommends poems about the complexities of connection between a place and its people When asked in an interview about her relationship to her home state, Maine novelist Elizabeth Strout balked. “That’s like asking me what’s my relationship with my own body,” she said. “It’s just my DNA.” That’s how I feel too—that Maine, where I was born and lived until my mid-20s, is so central to my selfhood that its significance is impossible to articulate. I can’t stop trying...

Oct 1, 2024 | honolulumagazine.com | Arnold Arre |Marianne Chan |Erin Kelly |Mia Manansala

Celebrate Filipino American History Month with some of our favorite books penned by Filipino authors. Hawai‘i boasts a thunderously mighty community of Filipino Americans, many of whom first immigrated to the islands in the early 20th century to work the agricultural sectors. Today, Filipino Americans make up about a quarter of Hawai‘i’s population, while their culture, history, and stories contribute to the rich diversity that makes our islands so special.

Aug 5, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Marianne Chan |Leonora Simonovis |Leonora Simonovis Purchase

Leaving Biddle City, Marianne Chan‘s second poetry collection, is focused on the role of place in shaping a person’s identity and sense of self. The speaker, a Filipina from Lansing, Michigan, refers to her hometown as Biddle City, a name that relates to the city’s beginnings—This is the origin story of our town:In 1835, two brothers from Lansing, New York, sold the land where Lansing, Michigan, currently is.