Tag: Vietnamese-American

Award-Winning Vietnamese-American Poet Publishes Debut Poetry Collection

 Kimberly Nguyen is pleased to announce that her debut collection of poems, Here I Am Burn Me, which won the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, was published today by Write Bloody Publishing. Nguyen is proudly joining a growing number of Vietnamese-American poets making an imprint in the industry, including Hieu Minh Nguyen, Paul Tran, and Ocean Vuong. Here I Am Burn Me is a space-themed poetry collection that examines family, intergenerational trauma, gender, and race in the context of the larger universe. Through poems that bend time and space, Nguyen confronts the sources of her pain head-on and looks towards a ... Read more