Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: Having featured poems by Dorothy Chan in our Issue 15.2 (see “So Chinese Girl” here), we’ve been well acquainted with their swaggering, full-throated, joyfully provocative, chock-full of contemporary pop culture fabulousness. All those qualities are on display here in “34D,” a number and a letter that together conjure up particular images that the poem both mentions and undercuts. In the end, however, the poem is a statement about the poetics of sex, in the smartest, richest way possible.

To hear Dorothy read the poem, click below:

34D

Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of BABE (Diode Editions, 2021), Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). They are an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and cofounder and editor in chief of Honey Literary Inc. 

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