Please note: this page was created more than 10 years ago, and Bao has found it difficult to track every featured performance he’s been booked for over the last decade. This should be considered an abridged list only.
Places Performed as a Featured Poet:
MINNESOTA
- Kieran’s Irish Pub
- Babylon Café
- May Day Café
- Acadia Café and Theatre
- Augsburg College
- Macalester College
- Jazzville
- City Center
- Calhoun Square
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Walker Arts Center
- South High School
- Patrick Henry High School
- Intermedia Arts
- Patrick’s Cabaret
- The University of Minnesota
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- Hamline
- St. Catherine
- St. Thomas
- St. Olaf
- Carleton College
- Cedar Cultural Center
- Drum and Cultural Center
- The Fitzgerald Theatre
- Weisman Museum
- Mankato State University
- Metro State University
- Winona State University
- First Avenue
- The Dinkytowner
- Lagoon Cinema
- Penumbra Theatre
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- Theatre Mu
- State Capital
- Sursumcorda
- The Artist’s Quarter
- Black Bear Crossings
- The Loft
- Northshore Theatre
- Univerity of Minnesota, Morris
- In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theatre
- The 400 Bar
- 7 Corners
- Normandale
- Pangea World Theater
- The Artist’s Quarter
- Paisley Park
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MINNESOTA POETRY SLAM
In 5 years, won 2 consecutive Grand Slam championships and placed 2nd the other three years.
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NATIONAL
- Nuyorican Poets Café
- CBGB Gallery
- Asian American Writers Workshop
- Public Theatre
- Asian Arts Initiative
- University of Pennsylvania
- Swathmore College
- The Kennedy Center (DC)
- Amherst College
- Vanderbilt University
- Marquette University
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- University of Chicago
- The Hothouse (IL)
- The Chopin Theatre (IL)
- iDao Gallery (IL)
- First Avenue (ND)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Locus Arts (CA)
- UCLA
- SLANNT (CA)
- Pomona College
- City College (CA)
- UC Berkeley
- Wellesley
- Brown
- Rice
- UC Davis
- Williams College
- Univ. of Florida, Gainsville
- University of Chicago
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- University of Texas, Austin
- ECAASU at University of Virginia and Rutgers
- Harvard
- Yale
- Cornell
- Ithaca College
- University of Maine
- Association of Viet Arts San Jose
- Grand Cafe Los Angeles
- Vietnamese Students Association Conference at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Wesleyan University
- Oberlin
- USC
- Pacific College
- Hollins
- Metro State
- Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Occidental College
- University of Illinois at Chicago – Loyola
- University of Chicago
- VASCON
- VIA 1
- VALA
- Butler University
- Rutgers
- UC San Diego
- UC Irvine
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- all APIA National Spoken Word Summits (Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York, L.A., Twin Cities)
- Vassar
- Boston College
- Northwestern
- Voices for the Voiceless
- Hamline
- University of Cincinnati
- SFSU
- Voices of the Viet Diaspora
- Orange County
- University of Oregon, Portland
- UNAVSA
- Century College
- NYU
- Northeastern
- Washington University
- Mizzou
- Saint Cloud State
- DVAN
- Smith
- East Meets Words (Boston)
- Community College of Philadelphia
- AAI/Family Style
- Sulu NYC
- Sulu DC
- Flathead Country Library
- Paris By Night 114: Toi La Nguoi Vietnam
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NATIONAL POETRY SLAM
- 1998 (Austin)
- 1999 (Chicago, Team Semifinals)
- 2000 (Providence, Individual Finals)
- 2001 (Seattle, Team and Individual Semifinals)
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FACILITATED WORKSHOPS
(Various subjects, from Asian American male issues to creative writing workshops, also numerous visits and varying lengths of residency)
- Work Opportunities Center
- Juvenile Detention Center
- Project Offstreets
- Asian American Renaissance
- St. Paul Boys and Girl’s Club
- South High School
- Patrick Henry High School
- North High School
- Macalester College
- Metro State University
- Minnesota Spoken Word Association
- University of Minnesota
- The Loft
- New Voices/The Circle
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- Kundiman (NYC)
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