Out of the Margins

parental diptych ~ a poem by an. Phan

convinced boys as a teen/to smuggle her banned books,/struck fear in their lovestruck hearts/as she passed on her motorbike

Boundless Land ~ a poem by Y-Bình Nguyễn

I wonder if the land remembers the smell of bomb debris.

The Things I Carried to a Foreign Sky ~ a poem by Ngan Nguyen

I left my country, carrying two things:/a passport printed with my Vietnamese name,/a black and white picture of my parents taken before I was born.

as pretty as hanabi

Q: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A VIETNAMESE AMERICAN WRITER?

Lifting a rose gold sun ~ a poem by Denise Hanh Huynh

Which Asian woman do you/blame for your choices now?

I Know Where My Mother’s Masterpiece Lies ~ a poem by Marque-Lin

i could have been a painter.//she tells me, proud./but i chose freedom.