The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is thrilled to present poets and writers Mai Der Vang, Anhvu Buchanan, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Trinh Lê in our first reading of 2025! This event is part of DVAN's quarterly reading series in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. Join us on March 15, 2025 for an exciting evening of poetry.
Mai Der Vang is the author of Primordial (Graywolf Press, 2025), Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017). Her honors include the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowship, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State.
Anhvu Buchanan is the author of The Disordered (sunnyoutside press) and Backhanded Compliments & Other Ways to Say I Love You (Works on Paper Press). His latest collection The Peeling of a Name was recently released with ELJ Editions. He was the recipient of the James D. Phelan Award and also received an Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He currently teaches in San Francisco and can be found online at www.anhvubuchanan.com.
Teresa Mei Chuc was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam shortly after the Vietnam War and grew up in Pasadena and Altadena, California. Altadena Poet Laureate, Editor-in-Chief (2018-2020) and Pasadena Rose Poet since 2016, Teresa Mei Chuc is the author of three books of poetry, Invisible Light (Many Voices Press, 2018), Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014) and Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012). Teresa is a public school English teacher in Los Angeles in her twentieth year teaching.
Trinh Le is a Vietnamese American poet & book artist working from the archive. Their work has been supported by the Queer Archives Residency at the SF Public Library, the Bernice Bing: Open Call at the Asian Art Museum, and the UC Berkeley Arts Research Center. You can find their poetry lovingly published by the great people at The Ana. Trinh is an MFA student in creative writing at SF State, where they self-publish under the imprint B!NGO Press. Their favorite color is red.
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