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Episode 167 with Mai Der VangThe Chills at Will Podcast, February 17, 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 ConversationThe 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

Review: YELLOW RAIN – Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press), by Ronnie K. Stephens, The Poetry Question, November 18, 2021

Fresno poet Mai Der Vang explores a forgotten history in new bookValley Public Radio, November 5, 2021

538: DeclassifiedThe Slowdown, November 4, 2021

Review: Yellow Rain, Poems, by Sarah Kain Gutowski, New York Journal of Books, October 27, 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

“Ever Tenuous:” A Review of Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang, by Genevieve Hartman, Gasher, October 4, 2021

A Public Reckoning With the Truth About Yellow Rain and the Secret War, by Kao Kalia Yang, Electric Literature, September 21, 2021

Keep Your Dying to Yourself, by Diana Khoi Nguyen, Poetry Foundation, September 20, 2021

Starting With Fire: A Conversation With Mai Der Vang, by Lily Houston Smith, The Rumpus, September 20, 2021

PodcastIs 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