Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards

YOWZA! Congralations to @rabihalameddine.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, all finalist for the National Book Award!!⚡

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Congrats to @cathylinhche.bsky.social , who is a National Book Award finalist ❤️

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congratulations to @cathylinhche.bsky.social for “Becoming Ghost” and Tiana Clark for “Scorched Earth”.

well-deserved for these two incredible poetry collections ♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️♥️

Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...

Featured poets include @chenchenwrites.bsky.social , @cathylinhche.bsky.social , Mahogany L. Browne, Brittany Rogers, @edgarkunz.bsky.social , Hala Alyan, Cornelius Eady, @taraskurtu.bsky.social , @deesoulpoetry.com , Elisabet Velasquez, Pamela Sneed, @joankwonglass.bsky.social & more!

Outdoor reading in Rochester’s beautiful Highland Park, if you’re in the area. Thursday at 6:30 with @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and me. Bring a blanket!!

I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30

a wonderful evening of poetry at the Highland Bowl with readings by @kathryncowles.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social -a huge thanks to Writers & Books for hosting and @robinweeg.bsky.social for hanging

We Give it to Ourselves: On Cathy Linh Che's Becoming Ghost | Poetry Northwest "For Che, the erasure of her parents and the other Vietnamese refugees . . . speaks to the larger silencing of Vietnamese people from histories of American imperialism and immigration."

(Awkwardly, because I've never posted on here before) I wrote a piece about @cathylinhche.bsky.social's stunning new collection of poems, Becoming Ghost, for Poetry Northwest. Check it out here: www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...

Author photos of Cathy Linh Che, Alex-Gallo Brown and Paul Hlava Ceballos are beside a book cover of Becoming Ghost. Text reads: Elliot Bay Books Company. Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM

So my friend @cathylinhche.bsky.social won a *ahem* Sundance Film Award

Come see her film at SIFF or at Elliot Bay Books this Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM!

I will read a lil something to celebrate her, and her new book, too!

a headline reads: Behind the Scenes: the extras of Apocalypse Now. the headline sits next to an illustration of a man set against a Vietnam battlefield and a sky full of helicopters

Artist @cathylinhche.bsky.social's parents were extras in Apocalypse Now. But in trying to recenter their experience in her own work, she wondered: whose story was it to tell?

Read the final story in our special series, American War: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Looking forward to reading "Becoming Ghost." And seeing Cathy Linh Che's award-winning short film "We Were the Scenery." Congratulations, Cathy!
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“Becoming Ghost” with Cathy Linh Che — IMPULSE Magazine Che’s latest collection of poems looks at the American myth-making that shaped public memory of the Vietnam War.

today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...

My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now — is this their story? Artist Cathy Linh Che confronts the literal marginalization of her mother and father.

From @cathylinhche.bsky.social: Her parents were extras in Apocalypse Now. But in trying to recenter their experience in her own work, she wondered: whose story was it to tell?

We Give it to Ourselves: On Cathy Linh Che's Becoming Ghost | Poetry Northwest "For Che, the erasure of her parents and the other Vietnamese refugees . . . speaks to the larger silencing of Vietnamese people from histories of American imperialism and immigration."

A great essay on Cathy’s new book, Becoming Ghost!

www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...

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The front of the book Becoming Ghost by Cathy Linh Che. Image on Cover: the sky with fluffy clouds and cascading leaves

Just received my copy of Becoming Ghost by @cathylinhche.bsky.social !

So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️

It won!
I'm so proud of my sis
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Nice poster! I do love the look and grain of film. Can't believe I'm on the sundance website ...

Here is the film poster for WE WERE THE SCENERY designed by @jessxsnow

Featuring Super 8 shot in the Philippines traveling from my parents’ refugee camp to where they were extras in Apocalypse Now + a photo of my parents in VN.

Tickets: festival.sundance.org

Quick #NYE shout-out:

Shout-out to @cathylinhche.bsky.social for We We’re Scenery.

Thank you! Let’s chat soon, whenever you’re free! ♥️

I am very excited to watch this documentary & also for the world to learn about the brilliant writer Cathy Linh Che. There is so much more I have to say about the subjects, the writer, the deserved attention coming this way, but for now, I’ll just say, I’m very very happy this story is being told

Thank you, Suzi!

Thank you!

My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now, and my sister made a film about it. It's beautiful... the cinematography is so beautiful. I'm so proud of her!

Thanks to @sundancefest.bsky.social for the immense honor!

Image of a mountain in the distance, with greenery in the foreground, filmed on Super 8. Official Selection 2025 Sundance Film Festival laurel in the bottom righthand corner. We Were the Scenery in the upper left.

I'm thrilled to announce that our short documentary film 𝘞𝘌 𝘞𝘌𝘙𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘌𝘙𝘠 is officially premiering at the 2025 #Sundance Film Festival! 📷📷

Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.

Thanks for sharing!

Congrats, Vanessa!

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