Poetry. Asian Studies. Poet and visual artist Mong-Lan's debut collection , Song of the Cicadas, won the 2000 Juniper Prize. This new collection of poetry moves from Saigon to New York to Paris, capturing the windy strangeness of the modern world and those that inhabit it. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Mong-Lan is currently the inaugural poet in residence at the Dallas Museum of Art.