Return to Viet Nam.3. I have to start with the small Covid test panel to which I add three drops of the concoction I’d created. I do this after a close exposure within my family. So my C line lights up. OK. But I have to give it 15 minutes. Then the T line shows…
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Letters to My Daughter: When I Met Le Ly
A Red Cross worker during the American war in Viet Nam travels with author Le Ly Hayslip on a return journey to the country and her home village, Ky La.
Letters to My Daughter: Storytellers of the War
Return to Viet Nam.1. I’ll address these notes to you, my daughter, about this whole venture I’m on to return to Viet Nam. I’ve addressed nearly all my writing about the US war in Viet Nam to you. You were eight when you first asked about the war. Your father was in the military, and I…
Unanswered by Do Nguyen Mai
As I prepare to return to Vietnam, I found this exquisite poem by Do Mguyen Mai who is from California. Unanswered by Do Nguyen Mai After Joshua Nguyen Em ơi, don’t look back when my spine snaps against the cold click of the trigger, when my lungs flood with the fullness of the night sky,…
Can You See the Rabbit? Interview with Artist Lisa Laughy
“I think I assume,” Lisa said, “whatever experience I have with my artwork will be what I want it to mean. To me, the rabbit in the moon is about my experience with it as a small child. When I was twelve, my father died. His absence left a void.” The rabbit in the moon was always a constancy.