Jennifer Chang reads at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.

“There Are Too Many Other Birds to Write About”

“The Strangers” was originally published at The Rumpus.

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, A Public Space, The Rumpus, and Best American Poetry 2012, and she has reviewed poetry for The Believer, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Virginia Quarterly Review.