Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and essayist who cannot stop thinking about language, memory, and migration. She is the author of The House I Inherit (Finishing Line, 2019). Her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, and elsewhere. Hailing from Oakland, by way of Hue, Viet Nam, Phuong is currently a Ph.D. student in Literature and a James K. Binder Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, situated on unceded Kumeyaay land.

Other poems by Poet Name in Verse Daily:
February 5, 2021:   "Natural Melancholia" "recall the story..."

Other poems on the web by Phuong T. Vuong:
"The Beginning of the Beginning"
"Reacquantances"
"Country of Origin"
"Let Me Be Honest"

Phuong T. Vuong's Website.

Phuong T. Vuong on Twitter.

About A Plucked Zither:

"A Plucked Zither beautifully reckons with the ghosts of war and the emotional turmoil of being othered in a new land, while shedding greater light on the Vietnamese diaspora. In poems that thread the richness of her native tongue together with familial history and ancestral voices, Vuong ventures into the grief to reclaim the losses. Both exquisite in language and enduring in spirit, this collection pulses forward to demand a new remembrance."
—Mai Der Vang

"Engaged in the relational and polyvocality, the poems here speak across time and space, address generations, and disrupt linearity. Animated by ghosts, memory, and speaking across silences, multiply: 'the sound of hovering / singing ready/ to swing into a world / picture it carving.'"
—Hoa Nguyen