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Victoria Chang

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

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Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

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There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

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People who are too uptight make me nervous.

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I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

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