Read By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

<p><em>Diana Khoi Nguyen on her selection:</em></p> <p>In a time of global isolation unprecedented for multiple generations, I have retreated into the community of words of others, that is, a return to the nook of books, day in, day out, and it is very much a comfort--a return to the routine days of my sequestered childhood. Today found me missing poets, writers, and humans with whom I would have had some kind of social and physical contact in this now long-gone former world of conferences, events, and travel. In a sense, I am able to be with these writers, and now enable for them to be with you--by facilitating an encounter between them and you in this intimate aural space. For this recording, I read the follow poems from the following writers:</p> <p><a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148099/everything-5bb78da98dce1"> Jane Wong, "Everything"</a></p> <p><a href= "https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/f0no8-dao-strom-instrument-print-book-travelers-ode-cassette-music/"> Dao Strom, excerpt from "Self-Travelogue/s (Endemism)”</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mkimarnold.com/the-fish-the-dove">Mary-Kim Arnold, "American Girlhood”</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.zephyrpress.org/product-page/the-truffle-eye">Vaan Nguyen, "Mekong River"</a></p> <p><a href= "http://blacksunlit.com/2020/04/six-poems-by-christine-shan-shan-hou/"> Christine Shan Shan Hou, "Amanuensis"</a></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0</span></p>