Portland-based poet and artist Dao Strom combines photos, text, and music in a multimedia exploration through traces of Vietnamese culture and mythology, including the music of folksinger Pham Duy and in images of herself wearing a pair of wings at historic sites in Vietnam.
Portland multimedia artist, poet, musician and photographer Dao Strom talks with Cascadia Magazine about the echoes of history in her work, returning to Vietnam, a continual sense of not-belonging, and her new book You Will Always Be Someone from Someplace Else.
A poem by Judith Barrington:
"I cannot name the one with the scimitar beak and the mohawk
who spends all day drilling holes in tree trunks."
Portland poet Samiya Bashir's poems entwine science and love, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and aging, blackbody curves and real, live Black bodies. The three poems here are from her 2017 collection "Field Theories."
