Nguyen Quang Thieu was born in 1957 in Chua Village, Hay Tay Province, fifty miles
west of Ha Noi, the city where he now lives. He entered Ha Noi University in 1975 and
studied Spanish and English in Cuba from 1984 until 1989. He has published numerous
collections of poetry in Viet Nam, as well as novels, collections of short stories,
and stories for children. His prizes, awarded for both poetry and fiction, include the
1993 Writers' Association National Award for Poetry. The Women Carry
River Water,
a selection of his poems co-translated with Martha Collins, was published by the
University of Massachusetts Press in 1997.
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The
Women Carry Water
poems in the Broadside, this issue...
Through Many Fields:
--
October --
A Song of My Native Village --
The Inn of Snake Alcohol --
The River --
Motion --
New Students, Old Teacher --
Lam Thi My Da
Born in 1949 in Quang Binh Province, Viet Nam, Lam Thi My Da graduated
from the Writers' College in Viet Nam and studied literature at Gorky
University in Russia. She now lives and works in Hue. She has published
five collections of poems, as well as three books for children. Poem
without Month or Year (1984) won the National Award for Poetry in 1984,
and Dedicated to a Dream (1998) received highest honors from the National
United Board of Vietnamese Literature and the Arts. A bilingual collection of
her poems will be published by Curbstone Press,
which will also feature her poems in a bilingual anthology of six Vietnamese poets this fall.
poems in the Broadside,
this issue... Through Many Fields:
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Garden Fragrance --
Friends --
There Cannot Be a Sea --
Skipping Stones --
Dedicated to a Dream --
Rain --
Martha Collins
Martha Collins is the author of four collections of poems, the most recent of which
is Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow, 1998). She is Pauline Delaney
Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, where she also serves as an
editor of FIELD magazine. --Order from Amazon.com:
Some Things
Words Can Do --
A Catastrophe of Rainbows
Webstuff: Martha Collins at the American Academy of Poets.
Thuy Dinh
Thuy Dinh is a writer and attorney from the Washington, D.C. metro area,
where she has lived since 1975. Her reviews and personal essays have
appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including Once Upon
a Dream: Twenty Years of Vietnamese American Experience (1995).
translations in the Broadside,
this issue... --
Garden Fragrance --
Friends --
-- Skipping Stones
Linh To
Linh To is currently completing an M.A. in American Studies at the
University of Massachusetts-Boston.
translations in the Broadside,
this issue...
--
Dedicated to a Dream --
Rain
Nguyen Ba Chung
Nguyen Ba Chung has published three collections of poetry in Viet Nam,
as well as numerous essays and translations in the United States. He is
co-translator of A Time Far Past, a novel by Le Luu, and co-editor of
Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars 1948-1993 (both U.Mass.).
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Mountain River --
A Time Far Past
translations in the Broadside,
this issue...
-- There Cannot Be a Sea
