Daryl Chinn -- darylngee@yahoo.com


Daryl Ngee Chinn, Poet, Poet Teacher, Editor  
1640 Buttermilk Lane   Arcata, CA 95521-6957  
(707) 822-6170    

MA, The Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University
BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, Tutorial Major

has recently read as the featured reader at the Morris Graves Gallery, Eureka, CA; in Virginia City, Nevada; in Elko and Winnemucca, Nevada; as part of a group readings Arcata, CA, at the Natural History Museum; in Eureka, CA, at College of the Redwoods, for In a Town This Size; and at Mills College, Oakland, CA, for California Poets in the Schools' Fortieth Anniversary; in Arcata, California, at Humboldt State University's Dialogue on Race' in Berkeley, California, at the 2005 River of Words festival; at Humboldt State University's exhibit opening, "How the Ink Feels"; in Grass Valley, California, at the Nevada County Arts Center                       

Teaches and has performed from 1987 to the present as a poet and artist-in-residence at various times in Anchorage, California, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming

Coordinates for California Poets in the Schools as Humboldt County; Coordinator volunteers as a Board member and Secretary of California Poets in the Schools and as a Board member and National Office Supervisor of United States Servas, Inc.

Publishes books, artist books, and chapbooks:
     Allison Cries, Granma Died, Zero, Color Photographs and poems,           Limited Edition, 1974;
     Soft Parts of the Back , 1989, University of Central Florida           Press
     Bird, Light, artist's book, 1998
     To the Sisters, chapbook, 2000
     Ten poems, chapbook, for Celia Homesley, 2000
     ife/Death Death/Life, artist's book, 2001
     Ten Poems, Eighty Questions, handmade limited edition, 2001      Some Food Poems, 2001
     Soul's Weight, artist's book, 2002
     Salmon Maiden's Return, chapbook, for and by Grace Grafton,           2002
     About This Time, chapbook, 2002
     emory's Velocity, 2003

publishes poems in magazines:

pendulum , Center Stage, and Emphasis , The Florida Review , The Greenfield Review, ONTHEBUS , Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts, Artful Dodge, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Great Basin, The Write Connections, Toyon, Poet and Writers (Eureka, CA)

Makes and contributes to collaborative books, word sculptures, dances and broadsides:

in Commonplace Book (North Redwoods Book Arts Guild), 1995 ; Leaves of Tea, 1997;
Convergence, 1999;
at The Ink People Center for the Arts, 1999;
at the DanceCenter in Arcata, 2000;
with Amy Gaber and Chris Smith on four broadsides, silk screened or computer generated, in 2007;
for Humboldt State University's Library exhibit, "How the Ink Feels"

Has been honored:

      as a scholarship recipient at the California State University SummerArts in 1989 and 1991; as a Writer on Site by the Ink People, Redwood Coast Writers Center, and Poets & Writers, 1999; as an Artist-in-Residence for the National Community Arts Program by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Federation; as a grant recipient of the North Coast Cultural Trust for 2001 and 2005.

Is anthologized in:

     Letters to America, Contemporary American Poetry on Race, 1995; Food Poems, 1998; O Taste and See: Food Poems, 2003

Has produced, edited and co-edited:

two statewide anthologies for California Poets in the Schools; over forty anthologies of student poems in California, Montana, Nevada, and Utah, and Alaska; and Toyon, a literary magazine from Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

 

Reads, performs, and consults:

in Alaska, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming

 

Belongs to:

California Poets in the Schools (CPITS), Asian American Writer's Workshop, North Redwood Book Arts Guild, The Ink People for the Arts, Humboldt Mediation Services, The Chinese Historical Society of America, Humboldt Arts Council, the Humboldt (County, California) and Churchill (County, Nevada) Arts Council

Volunteers as:

a cook for the Arcata High School Orchestra; for Coastwalk; for the Churchill County Arts Council; the Ink People, and the Northcoast Environmental Center; makes cabinets; flyfishes, photographs, bicycles, plays piano; speaks Chinese (Toisanese) and French

Biography:

Born in Utah and raised in California, Daryl Ngee Chinn counts parents, music, and grandmother as his strongest influences.   His parents--mother born in Texas and father from Guangdong province, China, and grandparents taught him Chinese; his father and mother encouraged his music, school, food, and reading; and music informs his writing and life.

Married to a mathematician, Daryl has raised chickens and two musical, bilingual children, plays piano, builds furniture, is building a kayak, makes books, cooks banquets and feasts (eight to eight hundred people), flyfishes and takes Argentinean tango lessons with his wife. Many of these flavor his poems.

Since 1987 Daryl has taught as an Artist in Residence at various times in California, Nevada, South Dakota, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Massachusetts, and Alaska.

Using music and poetry, he collaborates with dancers. He has been honored as a Writer on Site from Poets and Writers and the Redwood Coast Writers Center, and he has twice received grants from the North Coast Cultural Trust to work with and publish rural northern California writers and students. He has coordinates Humboldt County poet teachers for California Poets in the Schools, and serves as a board member for California Poets in the Schools and for United States Servas, Inc.

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