Been admiring the work of the poetry editors at The Rumpus for years, hyped to share new work as part of NaPoMo, from my *gulp* new project.

This poem circles around displacement, data, and finding my late grandfather in a certain monolith’s “mapview.”

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Thanks to poet Mai Der Vang for a great reading at yesterday's Verse Like Water event!

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“LOOK TO THE NEW MOON” by Mai Der Vang🌖

“If I had known      all those     days
to listen deep   into myself      so that you
would begin      to hear      me,      I’d sooner
soak      the decibels      of      your cells
into  the exhale  of my      embrace.”
 
#newmoon

Reminder to RSVP for this exciting event happening next Friday! Hear from Kao Kalia Yang, Pao Houa Her, and Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj, then meet them afterwards for a reception and book signing!

Toni G. Atkins Dr. Mildred García Christina House ✅American Academy of Poets multiple award winner Mai Der Vang (@maider_vang)
✅Black Women for Wellness Founder Janette Robinson Flint, who helped launch a national movement for reproductive justice
✅Venture capital pioneer Aileen Lee

A storm is in the air but tomorrow night, I plan to be University of Minnesota with Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj and Pao Houa Her talking about books and images and STORIES. Come join us for this special IHRC sponsored talk.

Hmong American Ink & Stories (HAIS) is thrilled to host its first-ever in-person speaker event featuring esteemed author Alexandra Chang (author of Days of Distraction and Tomb Sweeping). We warmly encourage you to join us for a magnificent evening of prose and craft talk.

Don’t stop talking about Rafah.

Don’t stop talking about Gaza.

Don’t stop talking about Palestine.

We're honored to host Hmong poet Mai Der Vang for our next Verse Like Water event!

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We are excited to announce our next juror, Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj! More details to come...

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We are overjoyed to introduce our next juror, poet and teacher Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj! See below for details 📒📒

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And, on Saturday night, FU gitive, Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj, and I will be swooping in to the Mission’s MEDICINE FOR NIGHTMARES bookstore to read and talk about the ancestral & the archive.

(I don’t get to read with my beloved very often, so this will be special.)

12/2 at 7pm.

PLEASE SHARE: Send us your best poetry manuscript! The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2023 book contest is now open for submissions, through Sept. 30. This year's final judge is the poet Douglas Kearney. Cost: $25. Visit our Submittable for guidelines.
fresnostate.edu/levineprize

Poetry from our #APAHM list:

Mai Der Vang’s YELLOW RAIN (Graywolf Press) is “a reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War.”
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Today's Featured Poet:

Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland, which won the Walt Whitman Award, was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She teaches at Fresno State.

Today's Featured Poem:

'Declassified' by Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj, from Yellow Rain, published by Graywolf Press.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/declassif…

Krisbrook,
Here's another quote.
'Whatever you put into the Universe eventually returns.'
Mai Der Vang American poet
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Love,
Dad

We listened to our dear Javier speaking with Amy Goodman today on our drive to Davis and were nearly in tears. So, so powerful.

It's #APAHM , and I'm sitting again with this lovely curated feature of Hmong poets by Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj: poets.org/writing-absenc…

I’m a shouting with joy! This is long overdue. Carl is one of our best poets. Period.