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Bao Phi

~ Vietnamese American spoken word artist, writer and community activist

Bao Phi

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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.

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

CALL AND RESPONSE—A REVIEW OF BAO PHI’S ‘SÔNG I SING’

2011

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Bao Phi’s long-awaited debut collection Sông I Sing brings poetry back to the people like nothing else I’ve seen in Vietnamese American culture.

Julie Thi Underhill
Read the full review by Julie Thi Underhill here.

BAO PHI

Vietnamese American spoken word artist,
writer and community activist

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