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The Paradox of Existence and Extinction: An Interview with Mai Der Vang on “Primordial,” by Mandana Chaffa, Chicago Review of Books, May 8, 2025.
A Conversation with Mai Der Vang, by Elizabeth Bolaños, The Adroit Journal, Issue 53, April 2025.
Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma, In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast, Lit Hub, March 24, 2025.
On a Hmong Poetics of Ecocide, by Pacharee Sudhinaraset, Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 27, Number 3, October 2024.
Who Has Access to the Archive? by Miranda Pate, Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2024.
The SRPR Review Essay: Exposure, Confinement, Haunting: Visual Poetry in the Twenty-First Century by Joanne Diaz, Spoon River Poetry Review, 48.1 Summer 2023.
“Imperial debris”: the Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain by Zhou Xiaojing, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, 2023.
Episode 167 with Mai Der Vang, The Chills at Will Podcast, February 17, 2023.
Through poetic collage, ‘Yellow Rain’ details the traumatic experiences of the Hmong people during the American War in Vietnam, International Examiner, January 10, 2023.
“The Sinister Undertones Underneath the Undertones”: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang, by Sydney Van To, diaCRITICS, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), February 9, 2022
Waking Up History: Sophia Terazawa and Mai Der Vang in Conversation, The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, December 7, 2021
“What Really Happened,” an interview with Mai Der Vang, by Anna Narin, Superstition Review, Issue 28, Fall 2021
Fresno poet Mai Der Vang explores a forgotten history in new book, Valley Public Radio, November 5, 2021
538: Declassified, The Slowdown, November 4, 2021
“The Sky Never Left the Sky”: Tiffany Troy Interviews Mai Der Vang about her newest collection YELLOW RAIN, by Tiffany Troy, Heavy Feather Review, October 26, 2021
A Public Reckoning With the Truth About Yellow Rain and the Secret War, by Kao Kalia Yang, Electric Literature, September 21, 2021
Starting With Fire: A Conversation With Mai Der Vang, by Lily Houston Smith, The Rumpus, September 20, 2021
Podcast, Is it recess yet? May 2, 2020
Memory and Metaphor in Mai Der Vang’s Afterland Ploughshares Blog, March 20, 2018
In Conversation: MAI DER VANG with Alex Dueben The Brooklyn Rail, June 1, 2017
Exploring the ‘Afterland’ of Refugees: An Interview with Mai Der Vang Chicago Review of Books, May 10, 2017
A Normal Interview with Mai Der Vang by Daniel Arias-Gomez The Normal School, May 5, 2017
What does it mean to have no homeland? This haunting poetry searches for answers PBS NewsHour, April 10, 2017
Weekly Podcast Poetry, January 2, 2017