Mai Der Vang Explained
Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet.
Life and education
Vang was born in Fresno, California. Vang's parents resettled in the United States in 1981 as Hmong refugees fleeing Laos.
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English, and from Columbia University with an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry.[1]
Her book, Afterland, won the 2016 Walt Whitman Award selected by Carolyn Forche.[2] Afterland was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2017, as well as a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Vang is a "finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry."[3]
Works
- Afterland: poems Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017., [4] [5] [6] [7] *
- Yellow Rain: Poems[8]
Awards and honors
External links
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- https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mai-der-vang
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91680/after-all-have-gone
- https://fairytalereview.com/2017/06/27/create-rupture-mai-der-vang/
Notes and References
- News:
- RedefineAtoZ: Mai Der Vang, a Poet Who Is Embracing the Surprises
. NBC News. 2017-09-19. en.
- Web site: Mai Der Vang Wins Walt Whitman Award Poets & Writers. www.pw.org. en. 2017-09-19.
- Web site: From History to Poetry: Mai Der Vang Explores the Archival Record in Her Celebrated Volume "Yellow Rain" National Security Archive . 2022-06-27 . nsarchive.gwu.edu.
- Mai Der Vang's and Airea D. Matthews's Striking Débuts. Chiasson. Dan. 2017-05-08. The New Yorker. 2017-09-19. 0028-792X.
- Web site: Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben. brooklynrail.org. 2017-09-19.
- News: Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang. 2017-07-07. The Rumpus.net. 2017-09-19. en-US.
- News: Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang - Center for the Study of Women. Center for the Study of Women. 2017-09-19. en-US.
- Book: Vang, Mai Der . Yellow rain poems . 2021 . 978-1-64445-065-9 . English . 1319436953.
- Web site: 2017 National Book Award Longlist. National Book Foundation. August 9, 2018.
- Web site: Mai Der Vang's Lannan Literary Fellowship Page. Lannan Foundation. August 9, 2018.
- Web site: 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner and Finalists. Claremont Graduate University. August 9, 2018.