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Intervention

By Chrysanthemum

Added: Tuesday, April 7, 2026  /  Used with permission. This poem first appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review.
Chrysanthemum
Photo by Zach Oren.

Chrysanthemum is a poet and performance artist. She serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam. She is a recipient of fellowships from Poetry Foundation, Kundiman, and Lambda Literary, which named her LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ inaugural Poet-in-Residence for the LGBTQ+ Youth Poet Laureate Residency. She became the first trans woman finalist of the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2016, and her teams won the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam. With Justice Ameer, she staged the two-woman show ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater's OBERON. Her work appears in Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, The Nation, The Rumpus, Them, Button Poetry, among others. She was born to Vietnamese parents in Oklahoma City.

Image Description: The poet Chrysanthemum stands outdoors and faces the camera with a wall and window behind her. She has golden skin and chest-length dark hair, and wears translucent glasses with a red-and-white patterned dress.

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