Vi Khi Nao and Dao Strom: February 24, 2021
The Poetry Center and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network co-present Dao Strom and Vi Khi Nao, reading and in conversation with emcee Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, cofounder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN), an organization for the representation of Vietnamese American writers and literature. Dao Strom, creative director of the DVAN project She Who Has No Master(s) (SWHNMs), shares a musical recording and reads from her collection Instrument (fonograf editions, 2020). A video featuring the poem "One Day I'll Have Vietnam Again," written and narrated by Vi Khi Nao, follows, and Nao reads from her forthcoming book A Bell Curve Is a Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021). Then, together, the poets read a bilingual poem, written in English by Strom with translation to Vietnamese by Nao, with images of the poem, in both languages, in situ as a public wall-sculpture in Portland, Oregon. Then the writers engage in extended conversation, facilitated by Pelaud, and focusing on the situation of writers and artists of the Vietnamese diaspora and particularly Vietnamese American women writers and artists in the US, and their work to organize coalitions and networks of support. This program was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Publisher
- DocFilm Institute
- Location
- The Poetry Center, SFSU (Remote Access Event)
- Date
- 2021-02-24
- Event Run Time
- 01:24:42
- Contributors
- Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
- She Who Has No Master(s)
- Rights
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