@cathylinhche.bsky.social
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
Core Faculty in Poetry at Antioch University’s low res CW MFA Program
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YOWZA! Congralations to @rabihalameddine.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, all finalist for the National Book Award!!⚡
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards
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October 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...
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Congrats to @cathylinhche.bsky.social , who is a National Book Award finalist ❤️
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76th National Book Awards
76th National Book Awards - Longlist Announcements
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October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congrats to @cathylinhche.bsky.social , who is a National Book Award finalist ❤️
www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/h...
www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/h...
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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 ♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️♥️
well-deserved for these two incredible poetry collections ♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️♥️
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.
Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Award…
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October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
congratulations to @cathylinhche.bsky.social for “Becoming Ghost” and Tiana Clark for “Scorched Earth”.
well-deserved for these two incredible poetry collections ♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️♥️
well-deserved for these two incredible poetry collections ♥️♥️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️♥️
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Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...
Cathy Linh Che – New England Review
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July 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...
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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!
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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!
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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!!
June 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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!!
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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
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!!
June 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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
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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
June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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
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(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."
www.poetrynw.org
May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
(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...
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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!
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!
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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!
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!
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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/...
Read the final story in our special series, American War: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
April 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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/...
Read the final story in our special series, American War: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Looking forward to reading "Becoming Ghost." And seeing Cathy Linh Che's award-winning short film "We Were the Scenery." Congratulations, Cathy!
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#poetry #vietlit #booksky #sundance #vietdiaspora #asianamerican
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
#poetry #vietlit #booksky #sundance #vietdiaspora #asianamerican
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.
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April 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
#poetry #vietlit #booksky #sundance #vietdiaspora #asianamerican
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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.
impulsemagazine.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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...
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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.
www.theverge.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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?
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A great essay on Cathy’s new book, Becoming Ghost!
www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
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."
www.poetrynw.org
May 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A great essay on Cathy’s new book, Becoming Ghost!
www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
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Just received my copy of Becoming Ghost by @cathylinhche.bsky.social !
So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️
So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️
May 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just received my copy of Becoming Ghost by @cathylinhche.bsky.social !
So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️
So very much looking forward to reading this, Cathy ❤️
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January 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Nice poster! I do love the look and grain of film. Can't believe I'm on the sundance website ...
January 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Nice poster! I do love the look and grain of film. Can't believe I'm on the sundance website ...
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
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
January 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
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
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January 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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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
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.
Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.
December 18, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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
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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!
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.
Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.
December 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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!
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.
Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.
December 17, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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.
Thanks to Christopher Radcliff & Jess X Snow for making this dream come true.
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Staff at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital have called for international protection after Israeli forces destroyed its power generators and snipers targeted staff in the ICU.
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December 17, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Staff at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital have called for international protection after Israeli forces destroyed its power generators and snipers targeted staff in the ICU.
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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.
December 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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.