Yearly Archives: 2018

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. Prize-winning poet Ocean Vuong wins the TS Eliot prize, and more news.

We are inheritors. Of water. Of land. Of memories. Of histories we do not always choose. Of ancestors. Of ghosts. Of grief. Of ghosts of ancestors, culture, memory, trauma. We are inheritors of stories. Of arrivals and escapes. Of flight. ...

Vietnam's soccer team came in a historic second last Saturday, January 27, 2017 at the 2018 AFC U-23 Championships. Their phenomenal performances lifted Vietnam's morale and enthused the country's fans and non-fans alike in ASEAN countries and elsewhere.

For many Americans “Vietnam” has been a moniker for a whole hellish debacle of American experience, and/but it is also the name of a country and a people. This is to say: we are at this table, too, and have been here all along.

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. The Circuit is an improvised, durational movement piece conceptualized by Moi Tran, presented by a group of dancers and a live musician, and more news.

Award-winning poet Hoa Nguyen has been offering poetics workshops - in Toronto and in cyberspace - for nearly twenty years. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in Washington D.C., her books include As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, nominated for a 2017 Griffin Prize for poetry.

Happy new year from diaCRITICS!A lot happened in 2017, no doubt. And diaCRITICS has been a little quiet over the past year (largely due...