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Chez Andrew
Andrew Lam is a NAM editor and author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005), which recently won a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
[ filed under: art literature ] SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL Presents Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Reception Join Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the Diaspora Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) for the San Francisco International Poetry Festival—Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora. This special event celebrates the large and thriving Vietnamese community in the Bay Area and brings Vietnamese American poets from around the country to read and perform. These artists are the new voices of their communities. Curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud in the Asian American Studies Department at SFSU, this special event features Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Truong Tran (author of Dust and Conscience), Linh Dinh (author of Fake House), Mong-Lan (author of Why Is the Edge Always Windy), le thi diem thuy (author of The Gangster We Are All Looking For) and spoken word poet Bao Phi. For more information, please visit friendssfpl.org or call 415.771.1076 |
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