Bryan Thao Worra is the award-winning Laotian American author of several books of poetry including On the Other Side of the Eye, BARROW, and Winter Ink. His collection DEMONSTRA won the Elgin Award for Book of the Year from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Born in Laos in , he received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center and the Playwrights Center. In he become the first Laotian American to receive the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature for poetry. He received the Minnesota State Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans Asian Pacific American Leadership Award for excellence in the arts. He is a professional member of the Horror Writers Association and the President of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. In he became the Lao Minnesotan Poet Laureate for his work as a Lao poet and community builder. His work is taught internationally in schools and appears in over publications and anthologies around the world including Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Europe and the US. He is a contributing editor to Asian American Press and the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement.
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Bryan Thao Worra is the president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, an international literary organization celebrating the poetry of the imaginative and the fantastic. A Lao American writer, he holds over 20 awards for his work including an NEA Fellowship in Literature and was a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the London Summer Games. The author of 6 books,his work appears internationally including Australia, Canada, Scotland, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, and Pakistan.
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These poems are not bound by language, they leap from one to the other, indeed one realm to the other; not bound my myth, not bound by life, not bound by earth. Where they land, a world
all their own. You ever read your biography in a foreign language filled with foreign characters? At the end you come out with an intimate understanding of who you are, your place in
the places you call home. Don&#;t let the zombies and moon-eating frogs fool you, these poems will tell you about yourself, whether you be from Laos, Vietnam, Guinea or Soma
Author's Statement
In a lifetime of writing I see there is still so much left to say. I consider this fellowship not only a personal joy but a true community milestone. I gladly continue my work presenting the dreams of my fellow refugees and our contributions to the great American tapestry.
I have been fortunate in my life to meet so many whose lives were changed at the deepest level by my work. So I continue. I know how much difference even a single word, a single sentence can make in a life. My eye gratefully appraises a dizzying world of the expressed seeking to convey the inexpressible. And occasionally, a great poem comes out of all this. That's a poet's path. That is my path.
There are stories and poems I can't wait to share with you all in celebration of our journey together. Change is possible only through the free expression of the many voices of a diverse people. It is one of the true joys of life.
I thank the National Endowment for the Arts for their support of my writing and their commitment to encouraging dialogues celebrating the creative spirit. I hope scientists and politicians, preachers and the wise, our paupers and teachers, students and families can each
Bryan Thao Worra
There is a famous account of Jiang Yan, an official of the Southern Dynasty. One night, he dreamt a god presented him a wondrous writing brush. From that day forward, his literary talents were beyond compare. When he grew old, the god appeared again as a dream and retrieved the brush. Jiang Yan’s writing was never as brilliant again.
Given a thousand nights,
Maybe one day,
A page will be found,
A song will be heard,
A stroke will be drawn
Youa tells me a story over the hot hibachi:
How she went to Laos
To see her lucky sisters
We turn our dishes to
Heaven, but
What manner of dog will come running
Speak to me of padaek
And some poor ba ferments, pungent, chunky and spicy.
Alas, so unlikely to catch on like sriracha or sushi,
At least in this century.
From the moment I met her
She's been wiggling,
Squirming,
It took me by surprise that Hitler was a vegetarian.
Rudolf Hess, too.
I remember reading about them as a boy.
I remember the outrage when someone asked us to forgive them
Since the 6th century B.C.,
The Buddha has said
The right perspective,
The right motive,
Sometimes, I want to tell
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