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"Learning to Talk" sPARKLE & bLINK 2.1 pg 16

"Sorry, Caroline Knox" sPARKLE & bLINK 2.1 pg 17

"Interview with Truong Tran" Switchback

"War in the Poppy Fields" Idiolexicon

"Shehecheyanu" Feathertale

Interview with Truong Tran via Switchback

Truong Tran is the author of five collections of poetry and a children's book. His first book of poetry The Book of Perceptions, published in 1999 by Kearny Street Workshop, was a finalist for The Kiriyama Prize. placing the accents, published in 1999 by Apogee Press, was a finalist for the Western States Book Prize for Poetry, and dust and conscience, also published by Apogee Press in 2002, was awarded the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Prize. His most recent book is four letter words, also from Apogee Press. Lately, Truong has been more heavily focused on visual art. His website states that he is an artist first, and that his alter ego is the poet. His most recent work is an art instillation entitled the lost and found, which premiered at the Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco’s Mission District in February of 2010. I sat down with the visual artist, poet, and educator at his home in the Haight to learn more about what led up to his book four letter words and his subsequent transition into visual art.


Check it out here: http://www.swback.com/interviews/Truong_Tran_Interview/1.html