Troubling Borders — Isabelle Thuy Pelaud with Souvankham Thammavongsa, Aimee Phan, Chau Nguyen, Christilily Chiv: March 12, 2014
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with Asian American Studies and the Fine Arts Gallery at SF State, and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), co-presents a reading and conversation by four contributors to and one editor of this first-of-its-kind work, Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2020). The book is edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, Mariam B. Lam and Kathy L. Nguyen, with Thuy Pelaud, director of DVAN, here providing the introductions and engaging in the conversation in response to questions from their audience. Guest writers presenting their work include: Canadian Laotian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa, Cambodian American poet Christilily Chiv, and Vietnamese Americans Aimee Phan, and Chau Nguyen, fiction writer and poet, respectively.
Note: the quality of this digital video from Spring 2014 is compromised due to the loss of master-files from failure of a 'failsafe' set of mirrored hard-drives; fortunately, a compressed video file could be retrieved from DVD backup.
- Publisher
- American Poetry Archives
- Location
- The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
- Date
- 2014-03-12
- Event Run Time
- 01:14:29
- Contributors
- Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
- Steve Dickison
- Rights
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