Pop-up: Hieu Minh Nguyen
Hieu Minh Nguyen reads from his poetry collection Staying Still at Portland Art Museum in the Native American Art gallery.
Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of the poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. His honors include the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a McKnight Writing Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Hieu is a graduate from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Originally from the Twin Cities, Hieu lives in Oakland, California. His next publication will be Staying Still, releasing September 1st, 2026.

Hieu Minh Nguyen reads from his poetry collection Staying Still at Portland Art Museum in the Native American Art gallery.
Poets Hieu Minh Nguyen and Paisley Rekdal come together with author Jae Nichelle to discuss their new poetry collections. Both works delicately reflect on violence, race, grief, and what is passed down between generations.