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Chen is a master of the fine art of THE BRILLIANCE OF GIBBERISH, as featured in the above cartoon sketched in 2018. In the latest P$W mag, Chen is again featured. I've cartooned so many career poets like him/her over the past few decades that I'd forgotten I'd already cartooned him. Thus, I did a search and bingo, there (here) he/she was. Since there are so many, many INANE/INNOCUOUS POETASTERS featured in P&W, I try not to sketch the same one twice. Chen tempted me, but I resisted. For Chen's endless identity politics hate-whitey tirade, see https://www.pw.org/content/craft_capsule_against_universality_in_praise_of_anger. #29 is a good example: "I’d like white writers to get angrier. Why did so few of my white grad school classmates speak out? Some of my Asian American peers could get angrier too. About racism. About who still gets left out of Asian American spaces. About anti-Blackness in Asian America."
Now, why doesn't Chen Chen express a little anger at all the hands feeding his/her dainty fingers, including P$W, Academy of American Poets, and Brandeis University? He/she is poet-in-residence at the latter. So, why doesn't he/she do that? The answer is simple: Chen Chen is a flaming hypocrite in pants or skirt!
