Mong-Lan Explained

Mộng-Lan
Birth Name:Anne Mong-Lan Pham
Birth Place:Saigon, South Vietnam

Anne Mộng-Lan Pham (born 1970), commonly known as Mộng-Lan, is a Vietnamese-born American writer, visual artist, musician, dancer, and educator. She has published seven books of poetry and artwork, three chapbooks, has won numerous prizes such as the Juniper Prize and the Pushcart Prize. Poems have been included in international and national anthologies such as Best American Poetry Anthology and several Norton anthologies. Her books include: Song of the Cicadas (Juniper Prize Winner); Why is the Edge Always Windy?; Tango, Tangoing: poems & art; One Thousand Minds Brimming, 2016; and Dusk Aflame: poems & art, 2018. Her latest music album releases include Arrabal de Tango: Tango por Siempre, voice & guitar, 2020; Perfumas de Amor, de Argentina y Viet Nam, (Tango por Siempre) (voice and guitar), 2018; New Orleans of My Heart, jazz piano, 2019; Dreaming Orchid: Poetry & Jazz Piano, 2016.

Early life and education

Anne Mộng-Lan Pham[1] was born in Saigon, South Vietnam in 1970; Her parents were medical doctors[2] before the family left Vietnam in 1975 during the evacuation of Saigon. Mộng-Lan grew up in Houston, where she attended the Glassell School of Art. She later received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. Mộng-Lan also received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Vietnam.[3]

Career

Mộng-Lan has published six books of poetry: Song of the Cicadas (2001),[4] [5] [6] Why is the Edge Always Windy (2005),[7] Tango, Tangoing (2008),[8] Force of the Heart (2011), One Thousand Minds Brimming (2014), and Dusk Aflame (2017). She has also published three chapbooks: Love Poem to Tofu & Other Poems (2007), Love Poem to Ginger & Other Poems (2012), and Tone of Water in a Half-Filled Glass (2018). Her work has also been anthologized in numerous collections, including The Best American Poetry andThe Pushcart Prize Anthology, among others. American poet Robert Creeley called Mộng-Lan "a remarkably accomplished poet", noting that "her poems are deft, extremely graceful in the way words move, and in the cadence that carries them. One is moved by the articulate character of 'things seen,' the subtle shifting of images, and the quiet intensity of their information. Clearly she is a master of the art."

In addition to writing poetry, Mộng-Lan is a musician, singer, and composer. She has released 10 albums, which include works of jazz piano, spoken word poetry, and singing and playing tangos on guitar. She has performed at universities, cultural organizations, clubs and cabarets.[9] [10]

Mộng-Lan has taught at the University of Arizona, Stanford University, the Dallas Museum of Art, the San Diego State University Writers' Conference, in the Asian Division of the University of Maryland University College in Tokyo, and the Jung Center of Houston.[11]

Awards and honors

Mộng-Lan received a Dean's Master of Fine Arts Fellowship from the University of Arizona (1999-2000), a Dr. Muriel Pollia Summer Fellowship in Poetry (2001) and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University (2000-2002), and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Vietnam (2002). She was also the inaugural Visual Artist and Poet in Residence at the Dallas Museum of Art, which she received through a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, as well as a Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writer in Residence in Lavigny, Switzerland (summer 2000). Her poetry has been included in The Best American Poetry 2003 and Pushcart Book of Poetry: Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize (2006).

Awards for Mộng-Lan's work!Work!Award!Result!
Billy Waller Prize in PoetryWinner
Song of the CicadasJuniper Prize for PoetryWinner[12]
Song of the CicadasGreat Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Awards for PoetryWinner
Song of the CicadasNorma Farber First Book AwardFinalist

Publications

Anthology contributions

Books

Chapbooks

Art exhibitions

Mộng-Lan has had shows of her artwork and tango drawings and paintings in numerous public exhibitions in the U.S.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pham . Anne Mong-Lan . Song of the Cicadas . 2024-10-04 . UBC Press . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241004062315/https://www.ubcpress.ca/song-of-the-cicadas . live .
  2. Web site: Kenrick . Vivienne . 2006-03-04 . Mong-Lan . limited . 2024-10-04 . . en . March 5, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240305074809/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2006/03/04/people/mong-lan/ . live .
  3. Web site: Mong-Lan . 2024-10-04 . . June 2, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220602134001/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mong-lan . live .
  4. Gotera . Vince . 2002 . Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Notices . . 287 . 1 . 44 . 25126721 . 0029-2397.
  5. Web site: 2001-04-16 . SONG OF THE CICADAS by Mong LAN, Mong-Lan . 2024-10-04 . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241004062315/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781558493070 . live .
  6. Web site: Massé . Johanna . September–October 2001 . Review of Song of the Cicadas . 2024-10-04 . Foreword Reviews . en . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241004062323/https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/star-apocrypha/?_pjax=%23pjax-container&_pjax_v=dfee27fc561a7086c1d7ee011608b26850111a29 . live .
  7. Gotera . Vince . 2006 . Synecdoche: Brief Poetry Reviews . . 291 . 3/4 . 84 . 25127639 . 0029-2397.
  8. Gotera . Vince . 2008 . Synecdoche: BRIEF POETRY REVIEWS . . 293 . 3/4 . 76 . 41220320 . 0029-2397.
  9. Web site: WHY IS THE EDGE ALWAYS WINDY? . 2024-10-09 . Goodreads . en.
  10. Web site: 2018-04-28 . Mong Lan . 2024-10-09 . Poets & Writers . en.
  11. Web site: Mong-Lan Biography . 2024-10-04 . Mong-Lan . September 4, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200904095014/http://www.monglan.com/biography1.html . live .
  12. Web site: Song of the Cicadas . 2024-10-04 . University of Massachusetts Press . en-US . February 22, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220222234615/https://www.umasspress.com/9781558493070/song-of-the-cicadas/ . live .
  13. Web site: 2002-07-22 . THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2002 by . 2024-10-04 . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241004062429/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780743203852 . live .
  14. Yu . Timothy . 2006 . Review of Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation . . 51/52 . 1 . 222–230 . 40784111 . 0009-3696.
  15. Web site: Mong-Lan Artwork. monglan.com. June 6, 2020. October 4, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20241004062817/http://www.monglan.com/artwork.html. live.

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