Mong-Lan Poetry Reading

Pink Cow

Finished

Artists

Mong-Lan

Mong-Lan, poet, writer, painter, photographer, and avid Argentine tango dancer, left Vietnam on the last day of evacuation of Saigon in 1975. Her first book of poems, Song of the Cicadas (University of Massachusetts 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. Her second book of poems is "Why is the Edge Always Windy?" (Tupelo Press, 2005). She received her MFA from the University of Arizona, was the recipient of a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship in poetry for two years at Stanford University, and was a Fulbright Grantee in Vietnam. Her poetry has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has appeared in leading American literary journals such as North American Review, The Antioch Review, and The Kenyon Review. 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.

Schedule

Mar 20 (Mon) 2006