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Author of BECOMING GHOST (April 29, 2025), AN ASIAN AMERICAN A to Z, and SPLIT. Video installation APPOCALIPS & short film WE WERE THE SCENERY, Nonfiction Jury Winner at Sundance 2025. Core Faculty in Poetry at Antioch University’s low res CW MFA Program
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?
My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now — is this their story?
Artist Cathy Linh Che confronts the literal marginalization of her mother and father.
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YOWZA! Congralations to @rabihalameddine.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, all finalist for the National Book Award!!⚡ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...
Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards
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Congrats to @cathylinhche.bsky.social , who is a National Book Award finalist ❤️ www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/h...
76th National Book Awards
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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 ♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️♥️
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last yr.Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature for the 2025 National Book Awards.
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
Kathryn Cowles@kathryncowles.bsky.social · last yr.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!!
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
(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...
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."
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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!
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! @cathylinhche.bsky.social #poetry #vietlit #booksky #sundance #vietdiaspora #asianamerican
MacDowell@macdowell1907.bsky.social · last yr.During her MacDowell residency, Vietnamese American poet Cathy Linh Che worked on Becoming Ghost, a long-awaited collection tracing her parents’ journey as Vietnamese refugees hired as extras in Apocalypse Now. #MadeAtMacDowell
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...
“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.
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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?
My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now — is this their story?
Artist Cathy Linh Che confronts the literal marginalization of her mother and father.
theverge.com
A great essay on Cathy’s new book, Becoming Ghost! www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t... @cathylinhche.bsky.social
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."
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Just received my copy of Becoming Ghost by @cathylinhche.bsky.social ! So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️
Nice poster! I do love the look and grain of film. Can't believe I'm on the sundance website ...
@cathylinhche.bsky.social · 2y agoHere 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
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
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
@cathylinhche.bsky.social · 2y agoI'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.
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!
@cathylinhche.bsky.social · 2y agoI'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.
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.
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Just sharing this news over here: I'm going to be the new secretary of Periplus, a volunteer mentorship collective serving early-career writers of color. Periplus has been a steady source of joy to me since I became a mentor in 2021 & I'm happy to be able to help out more as we head into Year 5.
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