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Friday Forum: Mai Der Vang

Talk Title: "Reframing Language: Expanding Hmong Discourse Through Poetic Investigation, From Yellow Rain to Saola" Talk Abstract: Poetry is largely seen as a tool for literary and creative output, but its malleability and shape-shifting nature lends itself to other possibilities of form and engagement. Within its power to convey and reshape ideas, there is room for historical research, critical inquiry, and the act of restructuring language. Through a process of documentary poetry, past and present injustices are revisited and investigated to allow for new reckonings to emerge. Narratives are recentered to amplify what has been historically silenced, and the page becomes a space in which to rupture convention and restore one’s agency. With these ideas in mind, I’ll be discussing my practice as a poet and will also read from my work. My second book, Yellow Rain, examined the dismissing of allegations surrounding the use of a chemical biological weapon against Hmong refugees following the end to the US war in Vietnam, while my newest collection, Primordial, looks to the environment and the endangered saola as a means by which to understand Hmong survival and loss.