Yearly Archives: 2021

DVAN and Texas Tech University Press are pleased to announce that their book series will be open for submissions from early career and emerging poets from December 13 through February 28. For this reading cycle, we will be reviewing poetry in English, from the Vietnamese-American and broader Southeast Asian community. Manuscripts will be given full consideration by TTUP and writers and academics from the DVAN network.

Another year, same pandemic.

Unfortunately, what we had witnessed that day with our grandmother wasn’t the first, nor would it be the last time a Vietnamese stole from us.

ÁCCENTED returns on Thursday, December 9th with poets Hoa Nguyen, Joshua Nguyen, Susan Nguyen, and Truong Tran in conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen on diasporic Vietnamese poetry. They'll be discussing their new books and careers, and sharing insights and wisdom into how we can continue to amplify diasporic narratives in the literary industry.

Vaan Nguyen continues to transgress a “man’s world."

News from the Diaspora ►San Jose Monument Dedicated to South Vietnamese Who Fought at Quang TriNews from Việt Nam ►Vietnam reconsiders methane-emitting rice amid climate crisis►Greek...

I saw myself like it was an out-of-body experience and I saw the silence that I existed in. As I stood at front of a classroom, teaching my students how to enact their voice and claim their power through their voices. And there I was: silent and living a lie.

"Morning seems like night. / How long has it been raining? / I walk down the stairs / to find an unwelcomed guest: / a pool of muddied / water"

"In order to meet voters where they are, we have to see that continued investment, and the AAPI community is part of that investment."

My first love gave me his yellow Kodak M35 before he moved, as if he knew we’d never see each other again. I told him no, I wasn’t taking that. He said that he had too much to bring with him anyway, and I accepted that half-ass excuse.