Creative Works of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (2007-2024)

Now on its 18th year, the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (ISSN 2153-8999) is an online and freely accessible interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for scholars and writers from diverse fields who share a common interest in Southeast Asian (SEA) Americans and their communities. I’ve served as the Creative Works editor since 2007 working with emerging and established writers and scholars from across the United States to share examples of their creative writing work with their peers and community, and I’m happy to have been given a chance recently to look back on over 64 pieces we’ve shared representing well over 100 poems, short stories, short plays and examples of creative non-fiction that the authors wanted to share. Many were the first in their families to attend college and come from communities where academic and artistic achievement cannot be taken for granted. I thank everyone who took the steps to share their work with the journal and gave us so much to think about, especially as many of us approach our 50th year in diaspora.

JSAAEA is published with support from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the College of Education at Purdue University, and Purdue Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services and Purdue University Press. JSAAEA was originally established in 2006 by the Executive Board of the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA).

Here you can see many of the works presented:

Trouble Telling The Enemy Kevin Minh Allen, 2010

Selected Poems: Thought Unthought; The Custodians; Blood is Blood Until It’s Yours Kevin Minh Allen, 2013

Selected Poems Jai Arun Ravine, 2010

Selected Poems Sery Bounphasaysonh, 2012

Teach Me: A Narrative Collage May Chang, 2013

BioPoem Wongsakorn Chanseawrassamee, 2007

Three Poems: Charges Against a Newborn; Unanswered; For the First Generation Do Nguyen Mai, 2019

Lady Triệu Thị Trinh Prays While Grooming Her Elephant Do Nguyen Mai, 2021

#34 Luk Lao Victoria Gill, 2022

Selected Poems Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn, 2010

Selected Poems: động-quan; your name won’t be engraved, Grandma; the peace generation; foreigners at home, forging the Vietnamese diasporas; i can’t help but keep asking Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn, 2013

Selected 10 Bilingual Poems: luck of the draw; widowed; the old woman; love and breath; Edeilweiss áo dài; colonization of the Vagina; the dark space under the bed; my first April thirtieth; reversed sub-thoughts; seeing Gram Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn, 2014

‘in Gram’s blouse pocket – trong túi áo Ngoại’ Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn, 2020

Forty–Five Years On: Two Poems: Coexisting & Again(st) Deportation, Again Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn, 2021

Hmong Daughter; Womyn Linda Hawj, 2011

Selected Poems: Folklore & legend: Kaundinya & Soma; The Mekong to Mundus Novus; The Tonle Sap; Touching Water; Water the Goddess Peuladd Huy, 2014

Mother’s Song Tony Innouvong, 2015

I am from Laos Danny Kotsombath, 2012

Three Poems: On The Artist’s Mother, Sleeping; Reverberations; 4 Found Haiku Jenna Le, 2021

My Folkloristic History of the Việt Nam War: A Non-communist Experience Long S. Le , 2013

Paj Xyeem Mao S. Lee, 2023

Lai mi ka si (I am Lai mi): A Poetry Collection by Thang C. Lian, 2024

A Change after Coming Back from the Death’s Door, Kyaw Kyaw Lwin, 2014

Selected Poems: To Own My Own; The Last of Her Generation Pacyinz Lyfoung, 2013

Three Poems: Tasting the Country that Could Have Been Mine; Too Blind to See Giants; We, the Hmong People Pacyinz Lyfoung, 2021

The SEAAster Scholars Collective: A Story of Homemaking in Academia Jacqueline Mac, Varaxy Yi, Vanessa Na, Latana Thaviseth, Malaphone Phommasa, and Linda Marie Pheng, 2021

Selected Creative Works Trinh Thuy Mai, 2013

“My Own Kwv Txhiaj: Reflecting on Self Learning of a Hmong Oral Tradition”, Chong A. Moua, 2023

Three Poems: The Dog at the Hospital; Bracken Ferns; Branta Canadensis
Pos L. Moua. 2019

Because I am a Daughter: A Hmong Woman’s Educational Journey Kaozong Mouavangsou, 2018

Refugee’s Return Anna Nguyen, 2013

Two Poems: Stop Time Before; Forsaken Ones Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn. 2019

Books = Freedom Tom T. Nguyen, 2012

Three Poems: “Same Identity, Different Lives,” “Into Obscurity,” and “Community”
Hyleigh Pan, 2022

Two Poems: My Interaction with Other SE Asian Communities, Struggle to Laotian Community Prinston Pan, 2021

Mimicry: A Short Play Diana M. Pho, 2019

Selected Poems: Twin; Prolonging/Palaung-ing it Somphet Phonvongsa, 2013

Selected Poems: Write More, Create More, Say More; Koun Khmer, Neariy Khmer
Phira Azalli-Chriissnia Rehm, 2013