You become words and words become you. You do not know the difference between utter and utterance. You will call the sea an overturned sky. - Mahmoud Darwish translated by Sinan Antoon

And, on Saturday night, FU gitive, Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj, and I will be swooping in to the Mission’s MEDICINE FOR NIGHTMARES bookstore to read and talk about the ancestral & the archive. (I don’t get to read with my beloved very often, so this will be special.) 12/2 at 7pm.

We are excited to announce our next juror, Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj! More details to come... #poetry #poetrycommunity #Montreal #poetryprize

We are overjoyed to introduce our next juror, poet and teacher Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj! See below for details 📒📒 #poetry #poetrytwitter #Montreal #poetryprize #englishliterature

We're honored to host Hmong poet Mai Der Vang for our next Verse Like Water event! clcmn.edu/news/2024/02/0…

Don’t stop talking about Rafah. Don’t stop talking about Gaza. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.

Thanks to poet Mai Der Vang for a great reading at yesterday's Verse Like Water event! #poetry #poet

“LOOK TO THE NEW MOON” by Mai Der Vang🌖 “If I had known      all those     days to listen deep   into myself      so that you would begin      to hear      me,      I’d sooner soak      the decibels      of      your cells into  the exhale  of my      embrace.”   #newmoon

Toni G. Atkins Dr. Mildred García Christina House ✅American Academy of Poets multiple award winner Mai Der Vang (Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj) ✅Black Women for Wellness Founder Janette Robinson Flint, who helped launch a national movement for reproductive justice ✅Venture capital pioneer Aileen Lee

Hmong American Ink & Stories (HAIS) is thrilled to host its first-ever in-person speaker event featuring esteemed author Alexandra Chang (author of Days of Distraction and Tomb Sweeping). We warmly encourage you to join us for a magnificent evening of prose and craft talk.

Reminder to RSVP for this exciting event happening next Friday! Hear from Kao Kalia Yang, Pao Houa Her, and Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj, then meet them afterwards for a reception and book signing!

A storm is in the air but tomorrow night, I plan to be University of Minnesota with Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj and Pao Houa Her talking about books and images and STORIES. Come join us for this special IHRC sponsored talk.

Been admiring the work of the poetry editors at The Rumpus for years, hyped to share new work as part of NaPoMo, from my *gulp* new project. This poem circles around displacement, data, and finding my late grandfather in a certain monolith’s “mapview.” therumpus.net/2024/04/15/nat…

🚨ALL OUT TO COLUMBIA RIGHT NOW🚨 Student organizers have called on everyone to come to Columbia TONIGHT and defend the encampment after administration's threats this morning‼️

This image will be in the history books and the people who authorized or cheered it on are going to look like shit.

"This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them." --Josh Paul, former Director, US Department of State (resigned in protest)

Mai Der Vang's PRIMORDIAL (March 2025 Graywolf Press) illuminates the plight of the critically endangered saola as a crucial new work of ecopoetics. For a human to call out to a creature, part of the human must be creature, too.

The US gave Israel weapons to kill 300,000+ palestinians in a year and over 2,000 Lebanese in a week. This is an American war.