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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"We are dangerous, shocking each other / with our touch. The body’s charge like bug / zappers from the summer dusks of childhood... " From "Future Grief" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the poem @ampoetryreview.bsky.social: ow.ly/7ZOJ50X0Atp #ASUHumanities

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American Poetry Review - Susan Nguyen - "Future Grief"

Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 54 | No. 04

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. " From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities

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I’m alive and I have an appetite/ for longing.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Happy Publication day to @susanpoet.bsky.social Dear Diaspora ✨ Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/dear-diaspora

Graphic that reads on top: Happy publication day! An image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen is held up in focus in front of a bookshelf of books which are out of focus.

Image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen on top stacks of other books in a bookshop.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

SAVE THE DATE — Dear Diaspora: book launch, trilingual reading & fundraiser for Palestine. Sunday September 28th from 7-9pm UK (brunch time in the US) | online & in person at The Common Press! @susanpoet.bsky.social @poetrytranslation.bsky.social @thecommonpress.bsky.social @phuonganh.bsky.social

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Couldn’t remember the word for draino earlier and called it plumbing juice🧃

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Putting a duvet cover back on your duvet has gotta be one of the most demoralizing things ever

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The other day a waiter misheard a friend’s order and said “sorry I can’t hear bc I’m a man” and I’m still thinking abt it

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The wonderfully talented Susan Nguyen launched Dear Diaspora at our last Mushaira in Cafe OTO. Find her signed copies Housmans Bookshop and Round Table Books 📚 Otherwise you can pre-order the UK edition of @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x #the87press #indiepress

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When three of our lovely authors in London ✨ They signed some copies at @HousmansBooks and Round Table Books 📚 Pre-order @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x Check out @sabadilla15.bsky.social's Self-Mythology, and @sarahali.bsky.social's Theophanies: the87press.co.uk/shop

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I’ve got 2 poems in the latest APR issue, including the title poem of book 2!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September! This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

COVER REVEAL! Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen (@susanpoet.bsky.social), coming September 2025 with the87press This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner. #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublisher

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our annual AWP offsite, Growing From Our Roots, featuring debut Asian writers will be on 3/27! Between now and then, donate to the Armory Arts Fire Relief Fund or The Sameer Project for a chance to win books by our featured readers!

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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest is now open for submissions! Send us your work, win money! Submit here: haydensferryreview.com/haydens-ferr... Entry fee is $23/$15 with a print/digital subscription, but if that's a barrier, stay tuned for a short free subs window later this month!

Photos of the contest judges over a dark blue and gold background, with white and gold text announcing the contest name, prize, and window.

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hi lovelies, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social is now on here! Pls go follow for all things HFR 🦋 🦋 🦋

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Sending this around again tonight

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Did a class visit recently for Dear Diaspora and a student said my book opened up dialogue bw them and their family abt diaspora and immigration and as a writer, this feels like a blessing ✨

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Today a student said my class was a ~haven for in-depth emotional and analytical conversations~. I had a pizza party for my editors. I picked these big leaves. The semester is (finally) almost over.

Three big yellow leaves and one big green leaf on a wicker table, which is half in shadow.

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

ICYMI I have a new poem on and toward 🌀 desire, spectacle, mess 🌀 up at the @aaww-nyc.bsky.social !!

Today is a good day, the first in a while,
and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire.
Open all the windows and let April in.
It’s musty as hell in here. Let the sun take me
by the shoulders and kiss the grooves
of my collarbones. I’m alive and I have an appetite
for longing. So let them all in: the birds,
the strays. Even the things that buzz
in my ear. A fly dizzies past, languid,
then promptly forgets the open window.
He knocks again and again, louder
and louder, against the warm glass,
looking for escape. God, to make a nuisance
of my want until it’s all anyone hears.
To make my yearning known as I circle
a room. I admire this lust for life, so I let him live.
I fan him through the window with a dust
rag like I’m waving goodbye to a lover.
When I walk by the week-old box of oranges,
I cause a commotion. A shadow of fruit flies
lifts then disperses. A dead one floats
in my glass. The smell of rot sharpens each day,
rings of blue mold appearing one by one
until whole oranges turn ashen. Let them.
Desire is not without casualty.
I’m amazed that every insect that finds
its way in makes it to water–
the silverfish in the sink, the gnat
hovering over the dripping faucet.
It’s a superpower. A heightened nose
for that which they cannot live without.
I’d be lying if I said I never drowned them.
Sometimes, I want spectacle.
I drop each silver orange down
the drain and watch the spores erupt.

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My wonderful AAPI lit students organized a watch party for Everything Everywhere All At Once tonight and brought snacks and are now playing games to come down from this very good but very intense movie and this is giving me so much joy 🥹

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"Today is a good day, the first in a while,/ and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Flight Path" by Susan Nguyen, in #TheMargins! aaww.org/flight-path/

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Seeing the first step in an ~easy~ recipe is to chop onions

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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Nov 29-Dec 5 is #ReadPalestineWeek & Publishers 4 Palestine are releasing *free* ebooks for a Free Palestine P4P already released AND STILL WE WRITE, which you can download below "Print it and share it. Make it part of your actions on Nov 29-Dec 5" 🇵🇸🍉 publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/19/l...

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Launching ‘And Still We Write,’ an Anthology of New Work from and Centering Gaza

In advance of READ PALESTINE WEEK 2024, Publishers for Palestine is releasing a digital chapbook and abbreviated zine version of And Still We Write: Recent Work by Palestinian Poets & Actions Y…

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I am keeper of the post-MFA tumblr (crowdsourced) which has tons of info on post-MFA fellowships, BUT it also has info on residencies—with a whole section of shorter residencies for caregivers! Pass it on! #writers #writingcommunity post-mfa.tumblr.com/residencies

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Post-MFA Resources

Fellowships, Residencies, and other resources for people with MFAs in Creative Writing...

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I love this kind of love where my friends and I look out for astrology memes abt our own signs (🐏) but also each others’ to see what kind of day we’ll each have or what kind of breakfast food we are etc and we send them back and forth forever

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Rite of passage: got my NEA rejection today 🙂‍↔️

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“How small it was, how brief. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be” Louise Glück

Picture of the poem “a work of fiction” by Louise Glück

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I truly believe that we can come together as a community and be unwell enough to make this website stick

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Dear humans, @susanpoet.bsky.social is an incredible poet. DEAR DIASPORA palpates the unsayable spaces between languages and cultures; it speaks those gaps that can swallow diaspora girls. I learned so much from it.

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My poetry book, Dear Diaspora, explores the intersections of girlhood and Vietnamese diaspora💚 It follows Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist.

Susan Nguyen holds a copy of Dear Diaspora in front of the poetry bookshelves at a bookstore.

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hi friends, I guess I exist here now. Today I ate crème brûlée. Heard two cats fighting in the alley. The oranges in the front yard are ripening.

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