UA Poetry Center
Mai Der Vang reads from her second book, Yellow Rain (2021), a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. In this collection, Vang reinvestigates the "yellow rain" incident, in which a chemical biological weapon was unleashed upon Hmong refugees as they fled Laos near the end of the Vietnam War. Grounded in a documentary approach to poetry, Vang's poems center the testimonies of the Hmong, whose voices were erased in the subsequent geopolitical fervor around the investigation. This reading was originally given alongside Anthony Cody.
Vang, Mai Der. Afterland. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017.
Differs slightly from published version.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Differs from published version.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Differs slightly from published version.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Differs slightly from published version.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021, p. 179.
