PRESS/REVIEWS
“Seventeen Hmong come-of-age writers meet you head-on with their hearts on fire, their eyes electric, their voices thundering: bullet-riddled histories, miraculous border-breakouts, adopted fractured citizenships, landscapes in spirit flight, language in between languages, and impossible healings of community, and perhaps one of the finest collections of creative writing in decades. A monumental tour de force.”
—Juan Felipe Herrera, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair, UC Riverside
“The confident clear Americano speech tells frankly of the anxieties and questions around being Hmong, new Americans, and artists, with diverse and ever-shifting resolutions. We are witnessing creation.”
—Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author of Mountains and Rivers without End
On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary Movement
New America Media (August 19, 2008)
Poets & Writers Magazine puts Fresno and the Valley on the literary map
Poets & Writers Magazine (Sept/Oct 2008)
The Pen Is Mighty: Hmong American Writers Reclaim Role as Cultural Storytellers
Hyphen Magazine (Issue 19)
Burlee Vang Wins Poetry Chapbook Contest
Asian American Press (August 9, 2010)
An Interview With Hmong American Writer/Poet Burlee Vang
Asian American Press (February 4, 2011)
10 Emerging Book Genres You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
HAWC members featured on Cover to Cover w/ Denny Smithson on KPFA 94.1FM (Berkeley, CA) (July 18, 2011)
Book Review
The International Examiner (July 20, 2011)
Shaping The Hmong American Literary Voice
AsianWeek (July 26, 2011)
Book Review
Hyphen Magazine (August 24, 2011)
Anthology Collects Poems, Storeis by Hmong-Americans
California Report/KQED (October 21, 2011)
Hmong writers celebrate with new literary anthology
Valley Public Radio (October 25, 2011)
An Interview With Andre Yang
Asian American Press (October 29, 2011)
A Hmong Generation Finds its Voice in Writing
New York Times (January 1, 2012)
Book Review
Lantern Review (January 23, 2012)
Process Profile: Andre Yang Discusses “Why I Feel the Way I Do About SB 1070?
Lantern Review Blog (May 9, 2012)
Andre Yang blogs about “Other ‘Others’ On Otherness” in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The Best American Poetry (May 24, 2012)
A review of Burlee Vang’s “The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth” by Miguel Jimenez
The Lit Pub (May 24, 2012)
Andre Yang reads at Literasians 2012 at San Francisco’s SOMArts presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and Kartika Review (May 24, 2012)
Book Review
San Francisco Chronicle (December 14, 2012)
Book Review
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (March 12, 2014)
Soul Vang Wins Full Length Poetry Publication Contest from Imaginary Friends Press (June 30, 2014)
An Interview With Soul Vang
Words on a Wire: Writers Daniel Chacon and Tim Z. Hernandez interview Soul Vang regarding his new book, “To Live Here”. (January 18, 2015)