KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO once upon a time, a boy is woken / by sunlight. POETRY Balled below my tongue
Fairy Tale with Chinese Mother
If, and Longer
like a seed
I won’t plant, afraid to surrender
the dream
Andy Chen
Andy Chen was born and raised in New Jersey. The recipient of a Pushcart
Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the Bogliasco Foundation, he
holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His poems appear
or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, New England Review, The Offing,
Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He teaches at John Burroughs School in
St. Louis.