This year, the Pleasanton Poetry & Prose Festival will be held on April 5, 2008.
Doll medaled 3rd in Teen Poetry.
My short story based on the poem Midnight Train took 1st in Prose.
Overall winnings: 120 bucks. Nice. :P
Last year, Wicker Girl got an honorable mention. I see I have improved.
Happy New Year 2008! New poems:
Smoker in Snapshots
Imagine This in Love
Eastern Goodbye in Melancholy
Angel in Melancholy
Doll in Anger
Yup. Loads.
Two New Poems Uploaded, One Poem Moved!
Copy and Paste the World can now be found in the Melancholy Section. (AKA the emo section.)
Plus, there's a LYRICS SECTION (with a grand total of ONE song.)
Yes, I have finally decided to change this website up a bit after I found that I could google myself. >_>
So what's been up with me? Well, after getting my poetic license revoked (by a certain poetry.com) I have been building up a grand list of new poems as well as working on my narrative memoir Got Rice. So, I plan to post all my new pieces sooner or later!
I am also thinking about creating a poetry book of most of the poems you'll find here.
My name is Vivienne Chen, and I am poet/writer. This site is for my poetry. You won't be able to find any of my longer works here, for they are too typo-ridden to be shamelessly publicized. I like to think of writing as a way to reach out to people, not just a selfish indulgence of one's own passion.
Regarding my background, I live in California, USA. I attend Amador Valley High School, with English, History and Colorguard being my favorite subjects. I've taken writing tutoring, which was more like having a personal editor than anything else. I'm working on publishing a novella "Got Rice?" which summary can be found here.
Some of my writing influences (though not all of them; a writer's got to keep some secret sources) include George Orwell, Joanne Rowling, Scott Westerfeld, Kenneth Oppel, and Ray Bradbury. My poetic influences include Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe and Jacques Prevert.
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