Hey Siri, What Time Is It In Vietnam?
Blue Nguyen
Hey Siri, What Time Is It In Vietnam?
Blue Nguyen

Hey Siri, What Time is it in Vietnam? — Blue Nguyen

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In Hey Siri, What Time is it in Vietnam?, Blue Nguyen explores how to extend love past its expiration date by building an altar, a dream log, a garden, and finally a letter. Nguyen experiments with form on and off the page, combining ancestral and modern grief within a digital space. From tweeting apologies to building Wikipedia pages, Nguyen experiments with what becomes possible within grief, finding form and shape in voicemails from from a dead father, and dream logs that mix memories with possibility or impossibility.

In Hey Siri, What Time is it in Vietnam?, Blue Nguyen explores how to extend love past its expiration date by building an altar, a dream log, a garden, and finally a letter. Nguyen experiments with form on and off the page, combining ancestral and modern grief within a digital space. From tweeting apologies to building Wikipedia pages, Nguyen experiments with what becomes possible within grief, finding form and shape in voicemails from from a dead father, and dream logs that mix memories with possibility or impossibility.

Blue Nguyen is a Vietnamese non-binary lesbian poet, artist, and organizer. Inspired by cartography and traditional symbolism in Viet architecture and culture–they research the architecture of grief, giving thanks, and livelihood. They work with poetic syntax, oral history, Vietnamese traditional woodworking, textile, and fiber techniques using organic materials. Their artistic journey began with poetry as a translation on grief, an act of prayer. Now as they research using materials off the page, their work questions what can a poem be made of– prayer as poetics, poetics as prayer. Material as an altar. Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology and Best New Poets Anthology, their 1st book Hey Siri, What Time is it in Vietnam? is forthcoming with GameOverBooks. You can find more of their work on bluenguyen.com.