Barbara Tran's Poetry Publications

Texts of Poems

Audios of Poems

Dish (See May 6, 2004 segment.)
Heirloom (See May 6, 2004 segment.)
Zenith (Excerpt)

A Contextual Aside:
A Note on the Poems

First published in Women's Review of Books (July 2002)

In the Mynah Bird's Own Words
by Barbara Tran

>>  Winner, Tupelo Press Chapbook Competition

>>  Finalist, PEN Open Book Award

>>  Finalist, ForeWord "Book of the Year" Award

>>  Finalist, Asian American Writers' Workshop "Members' Choice" Award

>>  Now in its 2nd printing!

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Cover image:
"Habitat" by Jeehee Paik

Table of Contents

Back Cover

Interviews

Here Comes Everybody

Features

Nguoi Vien Xu
(in Vietnamese)

Other Media Mentions

BBC Vietnamese: Tho Viet Tren Webzine Cua My
(in Vietnamese)
English Translation
(by Julia Tran)


	Print and Online Acknowledgements Amerasia Journal Arrival, Sky, December, Rise, Release (Summer 1997)
	Antioch Review Love and Rice (Winter 1993)
	Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture Revelation, Constellation, Fatherhood, Translation, Wound, Intent, Fire, Cricket (Spring 2000)
	The Asian Pacific American Journal Stones (Spring 1996) Prelude (Fall/Winter 1995) Meo, Snapshots (Fall/Winter 1994) Memories of a Mango Sun, Phu Nhuan (Summer 1992) Faith, Whether in New York or Abilene (Volume 8, No. 2/Volume 9, No. 1)
	Audrey Zenith (May/June 2003)
	Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (Rutgers University Press, 2001) Edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Iwanaga Zenith
	Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art Afterwards (Spring 1997)
	Crab Orchard Review Starfish, Respect, The Old Man's Love Song (Spring/Summer 1998)
	Drunken Boat Poems (Forthcoming 2006)
	Facing It: American War Poetry (Columbia University Press, Forthcoming) Edited by Lorrie Goldensohn The Women Next Door
	From Both Sides Now (Simon & Schuster, 1998) Edited by Philip Mahony The Women Next Door
	Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing Spider, Post-'75; Released; The Interpreter, Post-'75 (Summer 2002)
	Michigan Quarterly Review An Insignificant Ghost (Fall 2004) Dish (Winter 2004)
	The New Yorker Imaginary Menagerie (August 21, 2006)
	Nhà Magazine Fried Yams; Starfish (September 2003)
	nycBigCityLit.com Cricket, The Secret Life of Trees (September 2001)
	On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast (Anchor Books, 1995) Edited by Geraldine Kudaka Fried Yams
	Pequod Departure's Museum (Winter 1993)
	Ploughshares Edited by Yusef Komunyakaa Rosary (Spring 1997)
	Poetry Nation: North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry (Véhicule Press, 1998) Edited by Regie Cabico, Bob Holman & Todd Swift Love and Rice
	Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (Kaya Production, 1995) Edited by Walter Lew Phu Nhuan, Fairy Tale, Love and Rice
	Pushcart Prize XXIII (Pushcart Press, 1999) Edited by Bill Henderson (1999) Rosary (first published in Ploughshares)
	Rain City Review Remains, what I remember and what I tell (Winter 1997-8)
	Seneca Review Departure, Truth, Dream (Spring 1996)
	Solo Heirloom (No.5, 2002)
	The Southern Poetry Review Thu Duc, Fairy Tale (Fall 1992)
	Viet Magnet Rules of Water (December 1996) Love and Rice (May 1996)
	Viet Nam Forum, #16 Not a War: American Vietnamese Fiction, Poetry and Essays The Body, Rules of Water, Fairy Tale, The Women Next Door, 1967, Bells, Love and Rice, Zenith (Spring 1997)
	Vietnam Journal : : (http://www.vietnamjournal.org/) Revelation, Fire (Summer 2002)
	Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1998) Edited by Tran, Truong & Luu Cover and book design by Thien Do Rosary
	Women's Review of Books Spider: Life after 1975; A Contextual Aside (July 2002)
	XConnect Fodder, Rules of the Game (Winter 2005) Rosary (Online Issue #9 / Print edition #10)