Bao Phi

Bao Phi: Sông I Sing East Coast Book Readings and Signings

2012

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Hello all,
I will be doing a series of readings on the East Coast to promote my book. More details to follow.

Thursday October 18 BOSTON
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
38 Ash Street, Boston
6:30 p.m.
38 Ash Street
Boston, MA

Friday October 19 PHILADELPHIA
Temple
5 p.m.
Family Style/Asian Arts Initiative
7:30 p.m. $5-$10 sliding scale
Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine St.,
Philadelphia, PA

Saturday October 20 NEW YORK CITY
Museum of Chinese Americans
7 p.m.
with Magnetic North and Taiyo Na
215 Centre St. between Howard St. and Grand St.
New York City, NY

Bao Phi is a fiscal year 2012 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bay Area 2012

2012

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Hello all, I am proud to be reading as a part of two events in the Bay area this weekend. Each event has plenty of awesome Vietnamese American artists participating, not just me. Here is the info:

Friday, April 27, California and Beyond: Vietnamese American Artists and Writers Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Center, 424 St. Teresa St.

Link here

Saturday, April 28, 7pm Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network’s SF Vietnamese American Literary and Art Festival, Reading and Signing, African American Arts and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA

Link here

2012

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There is a certain catalyzing style that comes of utter fearlessness, and the poet Bao Phi has cornered it with his debut poetry collection, Sông I Sing.

Jane Y. Kim, Hyphen magazine

Read the full review here.

2011

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In this strong and angry work of what he calls refugeography, Bao Phi, who has been a performance poet since 1991, wrestles with immigration, class and race in America at sidewalk level… on this song of his very American self, every poem Mr. Phi writes rhymes with the truth.

read the full New York Times review here.

Dana Jennings, the New York Times

All Good Peeps

2011

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I’ve been fortunate in that a lot of good people have been saying good things about my book.

First off, a very talented fellow Vietnamese American artist and community organizer whom I have a lot of respect for, and whom I am lucky to call friend, Sahra Nguyen.

Also Kevin Ost-Vollmers was kind enough to devote some space to an interview with me on his awesome blog, Land of a Gazillion Adoptees.

And last but not least, Dr. Ravi Chandra, a fine poet who recently released a dope chapbook himself, wrote about my book on Psychology Today’s website, of all places! Hey, I’m just glad that it’s a positive review of my book on there by brother Ravi, and not an analysis of my psyche.

~ Vietnamese American spoken word artist, writer and community activist

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