James Chung McKenna is a writer and editor in Chicago.

They are working on a long poem.

Every line in the long poem is a sentence.

The title of the poem is long.

Long as in l-o-n-g. Not in a postmodern long way.

They don’t know what things are about.

This makes an about section difficult.

They have a bio that goes something like:

James Chung McKenna is a writer and editor in Chicago.

They received an MFA from the University of Alabama, where they were Editor of Black Warrior Review.

They have received fellowships from Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry as a June Poets fellow and from the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project as a teaching fellow.

They are a PhD dropout.

They are working on a long poem.

They are not online.

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