Joshua Nguyen

Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks, American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press) and Hidden Labor & The Naked Body (Sundress Publications). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and enjoys the art of dish drying. He is a humor editor for The Offing Mag. He currently teaches at Tufts University. (Source)

Poems curated by Joshua Nguyen

Notes On Staying by Hieu Minh Nguyen

October 19, 2025

"If joy is what tethers us to this life then most days, my mother & I float above the pavement, tied together by the fraying threads of her nightgown." — Hieu Minh Nguyen