Mong-
Lan will read from her three books of poetry. Her
award-winning first book, Song of the Cicadas, centers
around her experiences returning to her native country,
Vietnam, after a twenty year hiatus. Her second book,
Why is the Edge Always Windy?, which was published
in 2005, continues her explorations of Vietnam, and
well as the wider world, to include Cambodia, Thailand,
Switzerland, Paris, New York. Her most recent book,
Milonga: A Seismology, focuses on the Argentine tango,
which she has come to love through four previous trips
to Argentina and studying and dancing tango in the
U.S. and Japan. In Milonga, Mong-Lan explores the
dance and the passions involved. She will also give
a slide show presentation of her photography and artwork.
Summary
of Bio:
Mong-Lan, poet, writer, painter, photographer, and
avid Argentine tango dancer, left her native Vietnam
on the last day of evacuation of Saigon in 1975. Her
first book of poems, Song of the Cicadas (Univ of
Mass Press) won the Juniper prize, the Great Lakes
Colleges Association's New Writers Awards for Poetry,
and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's
Norma Farber First Book Award. She received her MFA
from the Univ of Arizona, was the recipient of a Stegner
Fellowship in poetry for two years at Stanford Univ,
and was a Fulbrighter in Vietnam. Her poetry has appeared
in numerous leading anthologies and literary journals.
Her paintings and photographs have been exhibited
in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Capitol
House in Washington D.C. for one year, the Museum
of Fine Arts in Houston, in Tokyo, Japan, and most
recently in 2005 at the Dallas Museum of Art. www.monglan.com
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