Poets reflect in UW-Madison’s first ‘Felix’ evening

“I see violence as a common misfortunate, and, by extension, fate. It awaits each one of us just around the corner.”

As a child in Vietnam and China, Linh Dinh saw images of Hamburger Hill during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. As an adult, his poetry is rife with violence. Now based in Philadelphia, he is the author of a book of poems, “All Around What Empties Out” (Tinfish, 2003). A new book of poems, “American Tatts,” and a novel, “Love Like Hate,” are scheduled for publication this year.

Dinh will discuss writing and publishing in contemporary Vietnam in the first of two FELIX events this fall at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22, in 126 Memorial Library. Fellow poet William Waltz will join Dinh in the presentation. Waltz is editor in chief of Conduit. “The only magazine that risks annihilation,” he says. Waltz also is the author of the award-winning book of poems “Zoo Music” (Slope Editions, 2004).

FELIX is free and open to the public.