-
Linh Dinh on Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh is one of my favorite writers, and you may get an inkling of his appeal from a terrific new interview with him published this summer in The Pacific Rim Review of Books. Here’s an excerpt: The two cultures I’m most familiar with, the U.S. and Vietnam, are tremendously fake, but in different ways.Read More
-
From the Other’s Side
Lihn Dinh’s blog entry today on Harriet begins with this observation: “American readers are familiar with the Vietnam War poetry of Bruce Weigl and Yusef Komunyakaa, etc., some may even have read former NVA Bao Ninh‘s novel, The Sorrows of War, but almost no one has read the war poetry of the South Vietnamese, on whose land much of the fighting took place, but that’s not so unusual, is it? How many know what Iraqi and Afghan poets are writing?” The truth of this is scalding, of course.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
