Madelyn Chen
Madelyn Chen lives in Los Angeles with her twin corgi-terrier mixes. When she’s not writing briefs and motions as a litigator, she’s scribbling poetry in the margins of legal pads. Her poems have been published in Ploughshares, Rattle, The Threepenny Review, and more.
Poetry
Love Language
I read somewhere that most men receive flowers / for the first time at their funeral. So I filled a vase / in your apartment with puckered roses
February 2026
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