TRUONG TRAN
reading/workshop
Wednesday, February 25
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
there is absolutely nothing poetic here to see nothing lyrical to hear go home to your families tell they you saw nothing forget what you thought you may have felt or touched language serves no purpose than that of meaning
--Truong Tan, dust and conscience
Truong Tran is the author of three collections of poetry including Placing The Accents, The Book of Perceptions, in which he collaborated with Oakland based organization Huong Viet Community, and dust and conscience which recently received the Poetry Center Book Award. He was born in 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam. He received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his MFA at San Francisco State University. He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Arts Council of Santa Clara, the California Arts Council, the Creative Work Fund and The San Franciso Arts Commission. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals including ZYZZYVA, The American Voice, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and The North Dakota Quarterly. Truong is currently living in the Bay Area and working as Executive Director for Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest Asian American Arts organization in United States.
Series sponsored in part with funds from the Irvine Foundation at Mills College, from 'A 'A Arts, through a grant it has received from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Poets & Writers, Inc, through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
reading/workshop
Wednesday, February 25
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
there is absolutely nothing poetic here to see nothing lyrical to hear go home to your families tell they you saw nothing forget what you thought you may have felt or touched language serves no purpose than that of meaning
--Truong Tan, dust and conscience
Truong Tran is the author of three collections of poetry including Placing The Accents, The Book of Perceptions, in which he collaborated with Oakland based organization Huong Viet Community, and dust and conscience which recently received the Poetry Center Book Award. He was born in 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam. He received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his MFA at San Francisco State University. He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Arts Council of Santa Clara, the California Arts Council, the Creative Work Fund and The San Franciso Arts Commission. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals including ZYZZYVA, The American Voice, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and The North Dakota Quarterly. Truong is currently living in the Bay Area and working as Executive Director for Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest Asian American Arts organization in United States.
Series sponsored in part with funds from the Irvine Foundation at Mills College, from 'A 'A Arts, through a grant it has received from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Poets & Writers, Inc, through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
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