Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English. Raised in India and Nepal, she came to the U.S. for graduate school at UMass, Dartmouth, has an MFA from San ...

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's tribute to her mother and the land of her ancestors. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa uses poetry because words don’t suffice. As the first Tibetan poetess to be published in English, she ...

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English. Raised in India and Nepal, she came to the U.S. for graduate school at UMass, Dartmouth, has an MFA from San ...

Book review: A Home in Tibet by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa It is not easy to classify Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s debut book, A Home in Tibet, into any genre. How should we read her book, as a memoir or a ...

US-based Tibetan poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa carries a heavy tag on her shoulders — she is the first Tibetan poetess to be published in English. US-based Tibetan poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa carries a ...

Tibet conjures up images of a mystic land. Snow-capped mountain peaks pierce the blue sky and fierce chilly winds sweep the rolling grasslands. Maroon-robed Buddhist monks pray in remote monasteries ...

The strongest of this remarkable set of open-ended apostrophes are like "fingers without guile/ soft as a kitten's throat"—beautiful and foreboding at the same time, with lines that seem to disappear ...

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English, shares her beautifully written memoir, Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging. After her mother ...

From the opening poem, "As Remembered", with its opening line-"I am only beginning to understand how seasons affect me"-to the closing poem, "One More Say" with its closing line-"Here it is a location ...

is the author of the poetry books, My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday, and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley) and a nonfiction book, Coming Home to Tibet (2016).