parental diptych ~ a poem by an. Phan
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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
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I wonder if the land remembers the smell of bomb debris.
The Things I Carried to a Foreign Sky ~ a poem by Ngan Nguyen
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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.
Lifting a rose gold sun ~ a poem by Denise Hanh Huynh
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Which Asian woman do you/blame for your choices now?
I Know Where My Mother’s Masterpiece Lies ~ a poem by Marque-Lin
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i could have been a painter.//she tells me, proud./but i chose freedom.