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AWM Author TalksEpisode 204: Forms & FissuresThis week, acclaimed poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok read selections of their work, followed by a discussion of their processes, themes, techniques, and more. Presented by the Poetry Foundation. This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOMEAbout the writers:A poet and multimedia artist, DIANA KHOI NGUYEN is the author of Ghost Of (2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Root Fractures (2024). Her video work has recently been exhibited at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art. N...2025-01-1341 min
The Line Breakdo you end up at home?Summer is here, so why not read poems? This month, Bob reads "Time Is Filled with Beginners" by Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chris reads "This is the Barbecue We Had Last Night" by Han VanderHart, and then the guys recap and re-cope the NBA Finals.2024-06-251h 06
New Books in LiteratureMarie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans...2024-02-2746 min
New Books in Science FictionMarie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans...2024-02-2746 min
Burned By BooksMarie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans...2024-02-2746 min
The Culture Show PodcastFebruary 5, 2024 - Sam D. Hunter, Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyong Ok, and Picture and PanelPlaywright Samuel D. Hunter writes about existential struggles. A rising star, he became widely known for “The Whale,” the critically acclaimed play that he adapted to the Academy Award-winning movie starring Brendan Frasier. In his latest work, “A Case for the Existence of God,” Hunter revisits the existential questions that shadow us: what is the point of sorrow? Where do we find the common ground on which we can build relationships? And how can we manifest hope amid despair? With his play now in Boston by way of SpeakEasy Stage Company, Hunter joins me to talk about this deeply moving p...2024-02-0549 min
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryDiana Khoi Nguyen : Root FracturesToday’s conversation, with poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen, is not to be missed. Both of her books, Ghost Of and Root Fractures, engage with and are shaped by her brother’s absence and the family silence surrounding it. Two years before his suicide, her brother quietly removed the family photos from their frames on the walls, carefully cut himself out of each photo, and returned them to their frames without him. The redacted photos remained on the walls like this for years before and after his death. In different ways, Diana’s books write into and around...2024-02-052h 39
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Literature, PoetryRoot Fractures: Poems by Diana Khoi NguyenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693891to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Root Fractures: Poems
Author: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Narrator: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 0 minutes
Release date: January 30, 2024
Genres: Poetry
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*One of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2024* *One of LitHub’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024* *One of The Millions’s Must-Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024* National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi...2024-01-302h 00
Experience the Story, Anywhere, Anytime With Free AudiobookRoot Fractures: Poems Audiobook by Diana Khoi NguyenListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 693891
Title: Root Fractures: Poems
Author: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Narrator: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 02:00:21
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-24
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Summary:
*One of LitHub’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
*One of The Millions’s Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.
In Root Fracture...2024-01-302h 00
Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastRoot Fractures by Diana Khoi NguyenDiana Khoi Nguyen reads “Đổi Mới” from her poetry collection Root Fractures, published by Scribner in January 2024.2023-12-1303 min
LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen PodcastPoet Diana Khoi NguyenOn this episode of Antioch MFA Program’s LitCit, host Maggie Lam chats with guest Diana Khoi Nguyen about their beginnings as a poet, philosophies in teaching, and techniques used in creating their debut poetry collection Ghost Of. Diana reads “Triptych” and shares stories and tips around self-care when writing about trauma and grief. This episode was produced by Michael Sedillo and mastered by Maggie Lam. 2023-06-1651 min
Poem-a-DayDiana Khoi Nguyen: "Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)"Recorded by Diana Khoi Nguyen for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 17, 2023. www.poets.org2023-05-1703 min
Musings of the Artist: (Honest) Conversations with Montse AndréeDiana Khoi NguyenDiana Khoi Nguyen is a poet and multimedia artist. She is the author of the poetry collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing, 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. In this episode we talk about grief, complex emotions, silence, and breaking that silence through art. Note: There is a bit of static in the beginning on my end that I wasn’t aware of while recording - but it gets better!This episode was audio produced by Katie McMurran. Music is by Madisen Ward.
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The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Diana Khoi NguyenProducer's note: We return this week to Diana Khoi Nguyen's reading of poems from Asian poets in diaspora. Please support your local Asian diaspora and anti-racist community organizing, as you can. In particular, Nguyen recommends donations to Stop AAPI Hate's fund: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
Diana Khoi Nguyen on her selection:
In a time of global isolation unprecedented for multiple generations, I have retreated into the community of words of others, that is, a return to the nook of books, day in, day out, and it is very much a comfort--a return to the routine days of...2021-02-1418 min
Close Talking: A Poetry PodcastEpisode #119 Family Ties - Diana Khoi NguyenContent Warning: Suicidality
Connor and Jack think through Diana Khoi Nguyen's remarkable poem "Family Ties," part of her haunting debut collection Ghost Of. They discuss the complex emotional textures Nguyen evokes in the poem, the challenges of representations of suicide, and ideas of family, self, and metaphorical webs.
More on Nguyen here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diana-khoi-nguyen
Family Ties
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Gradually a girl’s innocence itself becomes her major crime
A doe and her two fawns bent low in the sumac along the bank of a highway,
the pinched peach of their ears twitching in the he...2021-02-1254 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryMary-Kim Arnold : The Fish & The Dove“In The Fish & The Dove, Mary-Kim Arnold’s lyrical scope sweeps across intersecting terrains, moving through time to capture the history of occupation and legacy war in Korea, through the delicate tethers between biological mother, adoptive mother, motherland and daughter, and through the permeable membranes which exist between person and place. . . . With this fiercely tender offering, she lays bare multiple wars: ones between countries, in memory, within a family, as well as the ones between women and men. . . . ʻ[T]ime is a robe stitched through with ash’ that Arnold keeps ʻtrying to shake off.’ And it is an astonishing sight to b...2020-09-232h 11
Fig Widow CastHow To Write a BookThis week I read from two new collections of poetry and talk about how to know if you have a book in your nest of poems! Books mentioned: Diana Khoi Nguyen - Ghost of & Michael Lee - The Only Worlds We Know2020-08-181h 12
the Poetry Project PodcastDiana Khoi Nguyen - March 20, 2019Diana Khoi Nguyen - March 20, 2019 by2020-02-2138 min
Waves BreakingInterview with Zefyr LisowskiIn this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Zefyr Lisowski about her book Blood Box. Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, and North Carolinian currently living in NYC. She's a Poetry Co-editor for Apogee Journal and the author of Blood Box, winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award from Black Lawrence Press and forthcoming fall 2019; she's also the author of the microchap Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018) and is a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow. Zefyr's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Nat. Brut., Muzzle Magazine, and DI...2019-12-1850 min
Algum que sirva#040 - JuramentoTodo juramento envolve um sentimento de compromisso e conexão. E este poema da Diana Khoi Nguyen representa bem isso. Poema original: https://bit.ly/2raUxNW2019-11-2708 min
VSDiana Khoi Nguyen vs. SilenceDiana Khoi Nguyen is tackling silence. The poet and multimedia artist talks with Danez and Franny about writing into the spaces left by her late brother, splicing family videos, teaching MBA students to codeswitch, and interviewing the Vietnamese diaspora across generations. Plus, a very existential This vs. That, and a FANTASTIC pun to end the show.
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读首诗再睡觉誓言-戴安娜·科伊·阮-小米、冬瓜糖、哪吒中粤英双声道朗读-誓言戴安娜·科伊·阮风起起就停。潮水会落下。一只红腿鸬鹚会在如镜的水上追逐完全相同的另一只，忘记它们的饥饿。海水会一次又一次地重复这个主题，如若不然人们会不知所措。水会在浮木下微颤。声音在先，消隐在后，一只白色的狗跟踪着更小的一只：幽灵和月影，两粒微尘隐身于浪涌中。浅浅的潮水忽浊忽清，海藻的叶子随之舒舒卷卷，它们藻类的姊妹们轻拂底沙，当蛤蜊在水下静静用餐。小雨会落下，人们会情不自禁地贴近不可预测的海洋。躬身向下：有两个套的活结，可以从两头拉紧，从海滩的两边我们把双手浸在水里，感受眼睛看不见的一切。蓝血的马蹄蟹会到手边寻求庇护，门枢般嵌在云海之间。还有还有，巨藻会像鞭子一样蜷缩在柔软的手中，我们的手会抓住，也懂得被抓住，但现在两手空空：我要嫁给你。我要嫁给你。这样我们就可以发誓要一起拥有一切美好的东西。VowBY DIANA KHOI NGUYENIt will be windy for a while until it isn’t. The waves will shoal. A red-leggedcormorant will trace her double along glassy water, forgetting they are hungry.The sea will play this motif over and over, but there will be no preparing for itotherwise. Water will quiver in driftwood. Sound preceding absence,a white dog trailing a smaller one: ghost and noon shadow, two motesdisappearing into surf. And when the low tide comes lapping and clear, the curledfronds of seaweed will furl and splay, their algal sisters brushing strandsagainst sands where littleneck clams feed underwater. Light rain will falland one cannot help but lean into the uncertainty of the sea. Bow: a knotof two loops, two loose ends, our bodies on either side of this shore where wewill dip our hands to feel what can’t be seen. Horseshoe crabs whose blueblood rich in copper will reach for cover, hinged between clouds andsea. It will never be enough, the bull kelp like a whip coiling in tender hands,hands who know to take or be taken, but take nothing with them: I will marry you.I will ma2019-06-3005 min
Staying Alive: Poetry and CrisisEpisode 5: The Cut OutIn this episode, I talk to US poet Diana Khoi Nguyen (Ghost Of, 2018) about the perseverance of eels, technologies of printing, and how poetry allows for the possibility that our dead will remain present with us in one form or another. Many fine books of poetry came out in the United States last year, but one that stood out in particular was Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection Ghost Of (Omnidawn), which was shortlisted for the 2018 National Book Awards. The poems of Ghost Of explore how the grief state can open up a wider dialogue with the past—and with the...2019-05-2228 min
The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching ChannelEpisode 26: Jackson Neal on Drag Poetics & Haunting as Methodology*Error in episode: compulsory heteronormativity comes from the term, "compulsory heterosexuality," coined by Adrienne Rich, not Audre Lorde.
YouTube Edition: (https://youtu.be/YoaYkLzMlBI) or (bit.ly/JacksonNeal1).
Youth Poet Laureate in Houston, TX, Jackson Neal — in the running for title of National Youth Poet Laureate — discusses drag poetics, haunting as queer method for healing, trans poetics, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s “Ghost Of,” Pabllo Vittar, and so much more. This is part of a longer collaboration in the month of March with Urban Word NYC (urbanwordnyc.org) and The National Youth Poet Laureate Program (y...2019-03-0437 min
The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching ChannelFlash Briefing: "Family Ties" by Diana Khoi Nguyen read by Jackson NealToday's flash briefing poetry reading Youth Poet Laureate Jackson Neal. He reads Diana Khoi Nguyen's poem, "Family Ties." Join us later this week for our longer chat on trans poetics and haunting as a method for hopeful and queer livability!
More on Jackson Neal -- Jackson Neal is a Queer, boundless, scorpio poet from Houston, Texas. They are a two-time Space City Grand Slam Champion, a National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Spoken Word, the Youth Poet Laureate of the Southwestern Region of the United States. For more info and to reach out, visit (jacksonnealpoetry.tk) // Say hi...2019-02-2602 min
The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching ChannelFlash Briefing: Jackson Neal Reads "Gyotaku" by Diana Khoi NguyenToday's flash briefing poetry reading Youth Poet Laureate Jackson Neal. He reads Diana Khoi Nguyen's poem, "Gyotaku." Join us later this week for our longer chat on trans poetics and haunting as a method for hopeful and queer livability!
More on Jackson Neal -- Jackson Neal is a Queer, boundless, scorpio poet from Houston, Texas. They are a two-time Space City Grand Slam Champion, a National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Spoken Word, the Youth Poet Laureate of the Southwestern Region of the United States. For more info and to reach out, visit (jacksonnealpoetry.tk) // Say hi to...2019-02-2502 min
PoetryNowVowDiana Khoi Nguyen meditates on the importance of exchanging marital vows. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
2019-01-0704 min
读首诗再睡觉2018誓言-戴安娜·科伊·阮-小米、冬瓜糖、哪吒中粤英双声道朗读-181105誓言戴安娜·科伊·阮风起起就停。潮水会落下。一只红腿鸬鹚会在如镜的水上追逐完全相同的另一只，忘记它们的饥饿。海水会一次又一次地重复这个主题，如若不然人们会不知所措。水会在浮木下微颤。声音在先，消隐在后，一只白色的狗跟踪着更小的一只：幽灵和月影，两粒微尘隐身于浪涌中。浅浅的潮水忽浊忽清，海藻的叶子随之舒舒卷卷，它们藻类的姊妹们轻拂底沙，当蛤蜊在水下静静用餐。小雨会落下，人们会情不自禁地贴近不可预测的海洋。躬身向下：有两个套的活结，可以从两头拉紧，从海滩的两边我们把双手浸在水里，感受眼睛看不见的一切。蓝血的马蹄蟹会到手边寻求庇护，门枢般嵌在云海之间。还有还有，巨藻会像鞭子一样蜷缩在柔软的手中，我们的手会抓住，也懂得被抓住，但现在两手空空：我要嫁给你。我要嫁给你。这样我们就可以发誓要一起拥有一切美好的东西。VowBY DIANA KHOI NGUYENIt will be windy for a while until it isn’t. The waves will shoal. A red-leggedcormorant will trace her double along glassy water, forgetting they are hungry.The sea will play this motif over and over, but there will be no preparing for itotherwise. Water will quiver in driftwood. Sound preceding absence,a white dog trailing a smaller one: ghost and noon shadow, two motesdisappearing into surf. And when the low tide comes lapping and clear, the curledfronds of seaweed will furl and splay, their algal sisters brushing strandsagainst sands where littleneck clams feed underwater. Light rain will falland one cannot help but lean into the uncertainty of the sea. Bow: a knotof two loops, two loose ends, our bodies on either side of this shore where wewill dip our hands to feel what can’t be seen. Horseshoe crabs whose blueblood rich in copper will reach for cover, hinged between cloud2018-11-0505 min