a poet in a bright green yellow blue white V-neck dress, long brown hair + sharp red lipstick; a poet in profile, diaphanous silvery dress, long brown hair + a body of water ullullating behind

Diana Khoi Nguyen and Lan Duong, reading at the Global Museum

Thursday, April 13, 2023
Event Time 04:00 p.m. - 06:00 p.m. PT
Cost Free and open to the public
Location The Global Museum, Fine Arts Bldg., San Francisco State University
Contact Email poetry@sfsu.edu

Overview

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Poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Lan Duong each share their work, and engage in conversation with their audience, on this afternoon program at SF State's Global Museum site in the Fine Arts Building. Co-presented by The Poetry Center, DVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, and The Global Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition Textures of Remembrance: Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora, gathering work exploring the date of April 30, 1975, marking the Fall/Liberation of Saigon. 

Diana Khoi Nguyen, poet and multimedia artist, is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the forthcoming collection, Root Fractures (Scribner 2024). Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow, recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Currently, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Lan P. Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her debut book of poetry, Nothing Follows, is one of three titles coming in 2023 in the new Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series of books from Texas Tech University Press. She is also the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism (Temple University Press, 2012). Duong’s creative works have appeared in Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, Bold Words: Asian American Writing to Span the Centuries, Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Pasadena, California.

Related event: 

Textures of Remembrance:Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora (exhibition)

Video, earlier collaborations with DVAN: 

Vi Khi Nao and Dao Strom, with Isabelle Thuy Pelaud: February 24, 2021

Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, She Who Has No Master(s), and Danny Thanh Nguyen: March 3, 2020

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