Hmong How to Say Thank You Again
As part of our commemoration of Asian/Pacific heritage, we've curated this choice of poems, audio, videos, essays, books, and more from and almost Asian American and Pacific American poets. Beginning in 1992, the United States Congress officially designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. The celebration observes those whose ancestry extends to the Asian continent as well as the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Federated states of micronesia, and Polynesia.
Featured Poems
from "Surge" by Etel Adnan
A long night I spent …
"Muse" by Meena Alexander
I was young when you came to me …
"Even the Rain" by Agha Shahid Ali
What will suffice for a true-dear knot? Even the rain …
"Audience" past Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
People recollect, at the theatre, an audience is tricked …
"Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done" past Victoria Chang
Barbie Chang got her pilus washed for …
"Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms" by Hayan Charara
The trees alongside the contend …
"American Syntax" by Ching-In Chen
The teacher straightbacked …
"How I Got That Name" by Marilyn Mentum
I am Marilyn Mei Ling Mentum …
"Untitled [1950 June 27]" by Don Mee Choi
1950 June 27: my male parent heard the sound …
"Ramallah" by Bei Dao
in Ramallah …
"A Reactionary Tale" by Linh Dinh
I was a caring husband. I bought socks for my family unit…
"Verse form Total of Worry Ending with My Birth" by Tarfia Faizullah
I worry that my friends...
"The Good Provider" past Sarah Gambito
The best affair of all is to take the enemy's country whole…
"Tanka" past Sadakichi Hartmann
Winter? Spring? Who knows?
"Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins" by Cathy Park Hong
Chang spoke / Eng paused …
"Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi" by Garrett Hongo
No one knew the secret of my flutes …
"Saignee" by Tung-Hui Hu
They chew on flowers to bring color …
"Postpartum" by Hiromi Itō
Childbirth was not dying nor defecating …
"Names" past Fady Joudah
Thank you for dreaming of me …
"Humanimal [I want to make a night mirror out of writing]" by Bhanu Kapil
47. I desire to make a dark mirror …
"Beloved Millennium, Inadequate Witness" by Karen An-hwei Lee
Say we no longer bear witness to a body-politic of trauma …
"Water in Love" by Ed Bok Lee
How to love like water loves …
"Folding a 5-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet" past Li-Young Lee
This sadness I feel this evening is non my sadness …
"The Tree Sparrows" by Joseph O. Legaspi
We suffer through blinding equatorial heat …
"Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng" by Cathy Linh Che
California drought withering the basins ...
"Leaving Seoul: 1953" by Walter K. Lew
Nosotros have to coffin the urns …
"RPT MC-60 00.27 8" past Tan Lin
What is the relation between a fruit and a vegetable?
"White Boy Time Machine: Override" by Hieu Minh Nguyen
No matter where we go, at that place'south a history …
"Anna May Wong on Silent Films" past Emerge Wen Mao
It is natural to live in an era...
"The Iraqi Nights" past Dunya Mikhail
In Republic of iraq …
"For a Daughter Who Leaves" by Janice Mirikitani
A adult female weaves …
"Vestigial Bones" by Rajiv Mohabir
jaunse tu bhagela ii toke nighalayihe...
"Morning Song" by Sawako Nakayasu
Every time, these days, it seems, an equation gets forced …
"Wrap" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
I don't mean when a movie ends …
"I Hear Yous Call, Pino Tree" by Yone Noguchi
I hear y'all call, pine tree, I hear you lot upon the hill …
"Swell" by Hoa Nguyen
Swell y'all tin can dream more the globe …
"Build, Now, a Monument" by Matthew Olzmann
No longer satisfied by the way time slips …
"6 Persimmons" past Shin Yu Pai
after ruining another flavour's harvest—
"Nommo in September" by Hannah Sanghee Park
At that place you exist in h2o …
"Touched by Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves" past Sasha Pimentel
You lot map my cheeks in gelatinous night, your torso …
"Things We Carry on the Sea" by Wang Ping
We comport tears in our optics: skilful-goodbye male parent, good-cheerio female parent …
"Once more, She Tells the Offset Story" by Barbara Jane Reyes
Once, when at that place was no light, the wind danced …
"Brokeheart: Just like that" by Patrick Rosal
When the bass drops on Nib Withers' …
"Lines on a Skull" by Ravi Shankar
Start spirit; behold …
"Mess Hall" past Solmaz Sharif
Your knives tip down …
"Poesy Anonymous" by Prageeta Sharma
Do not fall in beloved with a poet …
"Never Always" by Brenda Shaughnessy
Alarmed, today is a new dawn …
"Water Grave" by Mai Der Vang
Nosotros cross under…
"Divine Poems (134)" by José Garcia Villa
When,I,was,no,bigger,than,a,huge...
"Cocky-Portrait as Exit Wounds" by Bounding main Vuong
Instead, permit information technology exist the echo to every footstep…
"Eden" by David Woo
Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms…
"Rootless" by Jenny Xie
Between Hanoi and Sapa in that location are clean slabs of rice fields …
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Featured Essays
Writing from the Absenteeism: Voices of Hmong American Poets
We invited 2016 Walt Whitman winner Mai Der Vang to curate a five-part series that highlights a small community of Hmong American poets whose voices enrich and bring greater diverseness to the literary landscape of this country. Each month, Vang featured a verse form past and word with a Hmong American poet as a mode to showcase their work and explore the themes that drive them to write.
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Making the Instance for Asian American Verse by Timothy Yu
In this essay, Yu discusses why educators shouldn't "shy away from giving poetry a central place in the Asian American literature classroom."
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A Cursory Guide to Misty Poets
The Misty Poets, a generation of poets who flourished in China from the jump of 1979 until the massacre in Tiananmen Foursquare in 1989, were known for their utilize of obscure and hermetic images and metaphors and their emphasis on subjective feel.
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In the Margin, Fertile Things Happen: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge in Conversation
Laura Hinton speaks to Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge nearly experimental poetics, hybrid forms, and the ethos and aesthetics of her ain work in this transcribed interview.
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A Brief Guide to Kanaka Maoli Poetry
Read about Kanaka Maoli poetry, Hawaiian poetry that has become associated with poets who effort to honor the use of native Hawaiian language in their piece of work, either exclusively or as a hybrid of vernacular, pidgin, and native words.
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Half-dozen Poets, Six Questions: Cathy Park Hong in Conversation
As function of the fifth annual Poets Forum, we interviewed Cathy Park Hong nigh her writing process, her go-to poets, her relationship with social media, and more.
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The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation
In this interview, Tina Chang speaks to Li-Young Lee about his drove Book of My Nights, besides equally his early experiences with linguistic communication and poesy, his relationship with his father, the weight of absence, the cost of transcendence, and the infinite possibilities of a poem.
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Poesy: The Question of Home by Meena Alexander
In this essay, Meena Alexander recounts her early relationship to poetry, her search to notice a home within a language, and her discovery of poetry equally the "music of survival."
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Six Poets, Six Questions: Brenda Shaughnessy in Conversation
As part of the sixth annual Poets Forum, nosotros interviewed Brenda Shaughnessy about her get-to poets, the part of the poet in today's culture, her favorite and to the lowest degree favorite words, her relationship with social media, and more.
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Kubota by Garrett Hongo
In this personal essay, Garrett Hongo remembers his granddaddy and his family unit'due south feel living as a Japanese-American family unit in Hawaii then California in the aftermath of World State of war II.
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Featured Books
Language for a New Century: Gimmicky Poesy from the Middle East, Asia, and Across edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar
This powerful anthology compiles contemporary verse from Asian and Middle Eastern poets, as well as poets living in the diaspora.
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Poems of the Masters: Prc's Classic Anthology of T'Ang and Sung Dynasty Verse by Red Pine
For the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been China's about studied and memorized drove of verse. This edition contains, for the beginning time in English, the complete text prepared by renowned translator Red Pine.
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The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
Collecting together the life work of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, The Veiled Suite allows readers to witness the poet'southward transition from the straight narratives of his earliest work to the passionate and layered lyrics of his later collections.
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Vivid Felon: Autobiography and Cities by Kazim Ali
The "lyric essays" in this volume, office memoir and part travelogue, are deep investigations into the coming-of-age procedure.
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Some Say the Distraction by Jennifer Chang
The aggressive and heartfelt 2nd book from Jennifer Chang gives many kinds of readers many ways in.
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Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang
Those amused, or shocked, past Victoria Chang'due south The Boss (McSweeney'south, 2013)—an well-nigh giddily unified volume in which every poem used metaphors from an oppressive workplace—should like Chang'due south Barbie Chang.
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Split by Cathy Linh Che
The title of Che'south debut drove, winner of the Kundiman Verse Prize, suggests the original Greek pregnant of the word trauma: wound, that which splits the mind or flesh.
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When I Grow Up I Desire to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
The jubilantly titled debut from Chen Chen weaves together his complex narrative equally an immigrant and a queer human being.
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Juvenilia by Ken Chen
The 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition, Ken Chen'south Juvenilia features poems that are varied and annihilation but formally conventional, conveying a kaleidoscopic intelligence.
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The Morning News Is Exciting by Don Mee Choi
In this first book of poems, Don Mee Choi takes on a fearless exploration of self, family, community, and global identities.
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Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn
Fascinating facts nearly the natural world provide fertile footing for insights into man relationships in Kimiko Hahn'southward eighth book of poems, Toxic Flora.
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Sorrows of the Warrior Class past Raza Ali Hasan
Changes in culture and regime, in expectations, and in the built environment—during Hasan's own youth, before he was built-in, and once again "[s]ince 1979, the yr of Bhutto's hanging" run like ample cables through his poems of explanation, denunciation, exculpation, emigration and return.
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Killing Kanoko past Hiromi Itō
Killing Kanoko is a striking, important collection by a radical Japanese feminist poet essential to gimmicky Japanese poetry.
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Time of Sky & Castles in the Air by Ayane Kawata
In this double volume of Kawata's poetry, the language and feel of dreaming abounds.
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The Undressing by Li-Young Lee
Li-Immature Lee'due south fifth book of verse, The Undressing, unequivocally aims for passionate, pure, and enchanted speech, taking the lyric poem equally more than a vessel for perfunctory, manufactured feeling; rather, the class serves the sentiment, as the emotions emerge from the urgency of their maxim.
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Non Here past Hieu Minh Nguyen
Whatsoever reader who encounters Hieu Minh Nguyen's 2d collection, Not Here, will probable be struck by the intense sense of longing and hunger that pulses at the eye of his poems.
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Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 by Hoa Nguyen
This volume collects piece of work from the kickoff decade of the poet'south prolific career, bringing together poems from ii previous pocket-size-printing collections (and several more than chapbooks) to form a welcome annal of Nguyen's voice.
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Contradictions in the Design past Matthew Olzmann
Olzmann's new volume, his second, finds its author fascinated by duplicates and past time.
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For Want of H2o by Sasha Pimentel
Sasha Pimentel'southwardFor Desire of Water (Beacon Press, 2017) was selected by Gregory Pardlo equally a winner of the National Verse Series.
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Diwata past Barbara Jane Reyes
In this series of more often than not prose poems, Barbara Jane Reyes invokes cosmos stories from Genesis and from Tagalog tradition, creating a text that is a hybrid of Filipina and Western storytelling.
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Boneshepherds by Patrick Rosal
In Patrick Rosal'south third collection of poems, themes of violence and beauty often coincide within the narrative.
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So Much Synth past Brenda Shaughnessy
Re-creating, synthesizing (as it were) her youth and adulthood as Duran Duran and Simple Minds synthesized their catchiest melodies, Shaughnessy gains power every bit she modulates from retentivity into feminist argument, and and then—in the last few poems—into speech as a responsible adult.
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Afterland by Mai Der Vang
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award, Afterland tells the personal story of Mai Der Vang's family alongside the broader cultural story of the Hmong people and their exodus from Laos.
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Further Adventures in Monochrome by John Yau
In this substantial volume, Yau explores identity and personal mythology through diverse lenses.
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To Whitey and the Cracker Jack past HAUNTIE (May Yang)
This debut from HAUNTIE (the nom de plume of the Hmong American writer May Yang) puts its functioning of outrage at center stage and justifies its stances thoroughly too.
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Blackacre past Monica Youn
Youn is a sometime lawyer and her book Blackacre is most an absence, ostensibly a hoped-for child, but also something yet more universal like a stake in the world or temperamental access to its richness.
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