Monthly Archives: September, 2023

It is way too early for this. And by “this,” I mean “Girl on Fire” blasting through conference speakers as multiple women flitter around scooping shiny confetti from little baskets and sprinkling them onto white tablecloths. While my daily coffee intake to prevent caffeine headaches does nothing to actually stimulate my brain, “this” certainly woke me up.

News from Vietnamese Abroad and from Việt Nam►Man executed in Vietnam despite international appeals from Europe and Canada►How a Vietnam War diary found its...

[Libération] La romancière française rend compte d’une résidence ce mois-ci dans les Cévennes d’auteurs de la diaspora vietnamienne à l’initiative du DVAN, fondation créée par l’écrivain Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Siblinghood is an intriguing thing: there could hardly be anyone in the world closer to a person than their sibling, but at the same time, the same world and circumstances can look so differently from each sibling’s perspective. The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, The Betrayed by Filipina-American writer and translator Reine Arcache Melvin, explores this complex relationship with heart, following two sisters as they navigate life in the Philippines through a turbulent dictatorship. 

[VTV4] The DVAN x ICI Vietnam event at Jean-Pierre Médiathèque in Paris was covered in Vietnamese news outlet VTV4. VTV4 features the Vietnamese diaspora in four parts of the world, spotlighting the different ways in which the Vietnamese diaspora expresses their creativity.

Drain and rinse again. I’ve been told to repeat this until everything is clear or less murky.

The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is happy to share that after an intensive nationwide search, we’ve appointed Kathy Nguyen as DVAN’s new Chief Operating Officer.

Zuihitsu, “lists built to cause surprise through a mix of surprise and variety,” are the cornerstone of Vi Khi Nao’s latest poetry collection My Yellow Heart. Prefaced by a copy of a blast email sent towards the end of March 2022, the collection is framed as an elongated response to a prompt. The email’s sender is Erik Ehn, who asks the recipients to practice in zuihitsu, “compassionate noting” for two weeks following the theme of “changed-for-changing.” The poetry collection follows suit, immediately creating a narrative through numbered lists, with the first half of poems titled with dates, as if in response to the prompt.