{{short description|American poet}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Marilyn Chin | image = Marilyn Chin - 2015 National Book Festival (6).jpg | image_size = | alt = Marilyn Chin | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Mei Ling Chin | birth_date = 1955 | birth_place = Hong Kong; | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = | citizenship = USA | education = | alma_mater = University of Iowa | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://www.marilynchin.org/}} | portaldisp = }} '''Marilyn Chin''' (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American<ref>{{cite journal |last= Gery|first= John|title= Mocking My Own Ripeness: Authenticity, Heritage, and Self-Erasure in the Poetry of Marilyn Chin|journal= LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory|issue=12|date=April 2001|pages= 25–45}}</ref> poet, writer, activist,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=CfOKAQAAQBAJ|title=Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry|author= Dorothy Wang|chapter= Chapters 3 and 4|publisher= Stanford University Press|website=www.sup.org|year=2013|isbn=978-0-8047-8365-1 }}</ref> and feminist,<ref>{{cite journal |last= Mc Cormick|first= Adrienne|date= Spring 2000|title= 'Being Without': Marilyn Chin's 'I' Poems as Feminist Acts of Theorizing|journal= Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism|volume= 6|issue= 2|pages= 37–58}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Poetry Criticism|volume=40|editor=Allison Marion|others=reprint of ‘Being Without’|publisher=Gale Group|url=http://gdc.gale.com|year=2002|pages=18–27}}</ref> as well as 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. Her work is a frequent subject of academic research<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9780230620889|title=Poetics of the Body: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker|chapter= Writing the Body Palimpsest|author=Catherine Cucinella|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2010|isbn=978-0-230-62088-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Defying the Global Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studie|editor=Cheryl Toman|author= Anastasia Wright Turner|chapter= Marilyn Chin's Dialectic of Chinese Americanness|publisher=Teneo Press|year=2013|isbn=978-1-934844-84-7 }}</ref> and literary criticism.<ref>{{cite book|title=Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity|chapter= Are You Hate Speech or are You a Lullaby? |author= Steven G. Yao|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Global Asias Series|year=2010|isbn=978-0-19-973033-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/melus/v037/37.3.hsiao.html|last= Hsiao|first= Irene |title= Broken Chord: Sounding Out the Ideogram in Marilyn Chin's Rhapsody in Plain Yellow|journal=MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.|volume=37|number=3|date=Fall 2012|pages= 25–45|doi= 10.1353/mel.2012.0046|s2cid= 161068535|access-date=April 1, 2018|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She has read her poetry at the Library of Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2013/04/marilyn-chin-is-a-witness-to-history/|title=Marilyn Chin is a "Witness to History" {{!}} From the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Literature at the Library of Congress|date=2013-04-25|website=blogs.loc.gov|language=en-US|others=Rizzo, Caitlin|access-date=2018-03-25}}</ref>
==Life== Chin 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<ref>[//www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/90 Poets.org]</ref> Her poetry focuses on social issues, especially those related to Asian American<ref>{{cite journal |last= Cheung|first= King-Kok|title= Slanted Allusions: Transnational Poetics and Politics of Marilyn Chin and Russell Leong|journal= Positions: Asia Critique|date=2014 |volume= 22|pages= 237–262|doi= 10.1215/10679847-2383903|s2cid= 145194907|url= https://escholarship.org/content/qt7j66188v/qt7j66188v.pdf?t=ni5xo7}}</ref> feminism and bi-cultural identity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0910-7|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZRH7C3YVGcC&dq=marilyn%20chin&pg=PA107|page=107|chapter=Chin, Marilyn}}</ref>
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.<ref>[http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/chin_marilyn.html Voices from the Gaps Biography]</ref>
She is featured in several authoritative anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry|volume=2|edition=3rd|year=2003|isbn=0-393-97792-7|last1=Ramazani|first1=Jahan|last2=O'Clair|first2=Robert|last3=Ellmann|first3=Richard}}</ref> The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English|volume=2|edition=3rd|year=2007|isbn=978-0-393-93014-6|last1=Gilbert|first1=Sandra M.|last2=Gubar|first2=Susan}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Swirl-Like-a-Leaf/dp/B004ZISQLS|title=Watch Bill Moyers: The Language of Life | Prime Video|website=www.amazon.com}}</ref> Her poem “The Floral Apron” was introduced by Garrison Keillor on the PBS special “Poetry Everywhere."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/chin.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419154913/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/chin.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 19, 2010|title=Marilyn Chin | Poetry Everywhere|website=www.pbs.org}}</ref>” It was also chosen by the BBC to represent the region of Hong Kong during the 2012 Olympics in London.
Chin is professor emerita at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.<ref name="auto">[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/marilyn-chin "Marilyn Chin"] Poets.org</ref> In January 2018, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.<ref name="auto"/>
==Awards and honors== *2020 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize<ref name="Poetry Foundation">{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes-lilly|title=2020 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize|date=30 May 2021}}</ref> *2019 The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature <ref name="The American Academy of Arts and Letters">{{Cite web|url=https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2019-literature-award-winners/|title=2019 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters|website=artsandletters.org}}</ref> *2018 Academy of American Poets Chancellor <ref name="The Academy of American Poets">{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/marilyn-chin-kwame-dawes-and-marie-howe-named-academy-american-poets|title=Marilyn Chin, Kwame Dawes, and Marie Howe Named Academy of American Poets Chancellors | poets.org|first=Academy of American|last=Poets|website=poets.org}}</ref> *2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for "Hard Love Province" <ref name="The Commonwealth Club">{{Cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/california-book-awards|title=California Book Awards|website=Commonwealth Club}}</ref> *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 === * Civitella Ranieri Foundation<ref name="Civitella Ranieri Fellowship">{{cite web|url= https://civitella.org/marilyn-chin-publication/|title=Civitella Ranieri|date=5 December 2018}}</ref> * Yaddo * MacDowell Colony * Lannan Foundation * Djerassi Foundation
==Selected bibliography== ;Poetry * [https://archive.org/details/dwarfbamboo00chin Dwarf Bamboo] Greenfield Review Press, 1987, {{ISBN|978-0-912678-71-9}} * ''[https://archive.org/details/phoenixgoneterra00chin The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty]'' Milkweed Editions, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-915943-87-6}}; Milkweed Editions, 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-57131-439-0}} * ''[https://archive.org/details/rhapsodyinplainy00chin Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems]'' W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-393-32453-2}} * ''[http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Hard-Love-Province/ Hard Love Province: Poems]'' W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0-393-24096-2}} * ''A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems'' W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0-393-65217-8}} * ''Sage'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2023
;Fiction * {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/revengeofmooncak00chin|url-access=registration|title=Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year= 2009|isbn= 978-0-393-07727-8 }}
;Edited Anthologies *{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f0QxrGA2vb8C&q=marilyn+chin+asian|title=Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation|chapter=Forward|editor=Victoria M. Chang|place= Urbana-Champaign|publisher= University of Illinois Press|year= 2004|isbn=978-0-252-07174-4}} *{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Dissident-Contemporary-Asian-American-Anthology/dp/B000GQYLNU|title=Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian Anthology|editor1=Ken Weisner |editor2=Marilyn Chin |editor3=David Wong Louie |publisher=Quarry West|year=1991}}
;Translations *{{cite book|author=Ai Qing|title=The Selected Poems of Ai Qing|others=Translated by Marilyn Chin and Eugene Eoyang|year=1985|author-link=Ai Qing}} *{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJkPAAAAYAAJ|title=Devil's Wind: A Thousand Steps or More|author=Yoshimasu Gozo|others=Translated by Marilyn Chin|publisher=Oakland University|year=1980|author-link=Yoshimasu Gozo}}
;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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/154364-12-books-of-poetry-by-writers-of-color-for-a-more-inclusive-national-poetry-month|title=12 Poetry Books To Diversify National Poetry Month|website=Bustle|date=13 April 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{ external media | float = | width = | image1 = | image2 = | image3 = | audio1 =[http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/marilyn_chin_reads_blues_on_yellow/ The poem 'Blues on Yellow'] from ''Rhapsody in Plain Yellow'' | audio2 =[http://poemsoutloud.net/columns/archive/marilyn_chin_reads_from_revenge_of_the_mooncake_vixen/ An excerpt from ''Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen''] | audio3 = | video1 ={{YouTube|7CAjQvDtTYs|The poem 'The Floral Apron' at Poetry Everywhere}} | video2 =[http://www.uctv.tv/shows/Barbarian-Sweet-The-Poetry-of-Marilyn-Chin-595 The poem 'Barbarian Sweet' at UCTV] | video3 = }} {{commons category|Marilyn Chin}} {{Wikiquote}} * [http://marilynchin.org/ Marilyn Chin's Official Website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071221061839/http://www.poetrysociety.org/chin.html Essay by Chin on American Poetry] * {{Cite journal | last = Parmar | first = Nissa | title = "Double Happiness": an interview with Marilyn Chin | journal = Contemporary Women's Writing | volume = 8 | issue = 3 | pages = 251–261 | publisher = Oxford Journals | doi = 10.1093/cww/vpu012 | date = November 2014 }} * [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/chin/chin.htm Chin's Profile at Modern American Poetry] * [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/90 Academy of American Poets]
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