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Not Here
''Not Here'' is a 2018 poetry collection by Vietnamese American poet Hieu Minh Nguyen, published by Coffee House Press. Its included poems address topics such as queer Vietnamese American identity, body politics, trauma, family, and solitude. Nominated for several awards, the book won the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry in 2019. Content Centered around Nguyen's experiences as a queer Vietnamese American, the book's poems span personal subject matter such as his childhood, as well as the trauma and abuse which he suffered earlier in his life. Poems like "Mother" and "Lesson" stemmed from hs specific relationships with his mother and father. Some of the book's poems, such as "Notes on Staying", were performed live for slam poetry, the poetry scene where Nguyen first got involved as an upcoming poet in the Twin Cities, specifically on the Button Poetry stage. Several of the poems also address Nguyen's changing relationship to the Twin Cities metro area, "whet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hieu Minh Nguyen
Hieu Minh Nguyen (Vietnamese name: Nguyễn Minh Hiếu) is a Vietnamese-American poet based in Minneapolis. A graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program, his writing has appeared in ''PBS NewsHour'', ''POETRY magazine, BuzzFeed, Poetry London, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Muzzle Magazine, The Paris-American, ''the '' Indiana Review, and more.'' He identifies as queer. Nguyen is the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry, a Kundiman fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, winner of the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts, and the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center. He has been a recipient of the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Summer Residency, and has participated in many other residencies and fellowships - including the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. He was a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. In 2014, his debut collection of poetry, ''This Way to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Burt
Stephanie Burt (formerly published as Stephen Burt) is a literary critic and poet who is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. ''The New York Times'' has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of ergeneration". Burt grew up around Washington, D.C. She has published various collections of poetry and a large amount of literary criticism and research. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker,'' ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The London Review of Books'', and other publications. Literary criticism: new categories of contemporary poetry Elliptical poetry Burt received significant attention for coining the term " elliptical poetry" in a 1998 book review of Susan Wheeler's book ''Smokes'' in '' Boston Review'' magazine: Elliptical poets try to manifest a person—who speaks the poem and reflects the poet—while using all the verbal gizmos developed over the last few decades to undermine the coherence of speaking selves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBTQ Literature
LGBTQ literature may refer to: * Lesbian literature * Gay literature * Bisexual literature * Transgender literature * Intersex literature * Or any other literature featuring the LGBTQ community By country * LGBTQ literature in Argentina * LGBTQ literature in Australia * LGBTQ literature in Colombia * LGBTQ literature in Ecuador * LGBTQ literature in El Salvador * LGBTQ literature in Iceland * LGBTQ literature in Mexico * LGBTQ literature in Singapore * LGBTQ literature in Spain * LGBTQ literature in the Dutch-language area LGBT Literature in the Dutch-language area comprises the works from writers from de Lage Landen, that is Flanders and the Netherlands, using themes or characters that form a part of, or are related to, sexual diversity. According to Gerrit Komrij ... * Black lesbian literature in the United States {{LGBTQ, academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese-American Literature
Vietnamese Americans () are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They constitute a major part of all overseas Vietnamese Overseas Vietnamese (, , or ) refers to the Vietnamese diaspora living outside of Vietnam. The global overseas Vietnamese population is estimated at 5 to 6 million people. The largest communities are in the United States, with over 2.3 million .... As of 2023, over 2.3 million people of Vietnamese descent live in the United States, making them the fourth largest Asian American ethnic group.The majority (60%) are immigrants, while 40% were born in the United States. The Vietnamese American population grew significantly after 1975, when a large wave of South Vietnam, South Vietnamese refugees arrived in the U.S. following the end of the Vietnam War. Today, over half of Vietnamese-Americans reside in California and Texas, particularly in metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Houston, and San Jose, California, San Jose. History Early arrivals (pre-1975) The h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
