Events

January 2025
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, January 22nd–February 2nd

February 2025
University of California, Irvine (reading from Split & Q&A) Irvine, CA (via Zoom), February 20, 2025
Tin House (online teaching), Zoom, February 22, 2025

March 2025
Pratt University (film screening and Q&A), Brooklyn, NY, March 5, 2025, 6:30 PM
AWP Conference Book Signing at UNR-Tahoe's table #804, Los Angeles, CA, March 28, 2025, 2pm–3pm
AWP Conference Panel: "The Defiance of Pink Poetry Books," Los Angeles, CA, March 29, 2025, 10:30am–11:45am
Literaoke, Offsite AWP Event, Los Angeles, CA, March 29, 2025, 8pm–10pm
AWP After-Party Reading, Los Angeles, CA (Tabula Rasa's backyard, hosted by Morgan Parker), March 30, 2025
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (reading and film screening) + UIC Chicago vis Zoom for screening and Q&A, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 31st–April 1st, 2025

April 2025
Fifty After the Fall Symposium/short film screenings at Georgetown University’s Gonda Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2024, 4:00pm–7:30PM
Visions du Reel (Switzerland) International Film Premiere, Nyon, Switzerland, April 6, 2025
DePauw University Visit Greencastle, Indiana, April 8–9, 2025
Blasian March Panel, with Jennifer Baker, Carmen LoBue, and Daphne Lundi (moderator), Immigrant Social
Services, 137 Henry Street, New York NY 10002, April 12, 2025, 4:00 PM
Virginia Tech Zoom Film Screening for Appocalips, Zoom, April 15, 2025
Association of Asian American Studies Conference panel: "Not 50th Anniversary as in Party, But Commemoration as in Writing Out of the American War Machine," Boston, MA, April 17–19, 2025
SFFilm Festival, Marina Theatre, San Francisco, CA, April 25, 2025, 6:15PM
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, USC, Los Angeles, CA, April 26–27, 2025
San Luis Obispo Film Festival, San Luis Obispo, CA, April 28 and 29, 2025

May 2025
Books Are Magic Launch Reading with Wo Chan, Brooklyn, NY, May 1, 2025
Launch for The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Monique Truong, & Lan Duong in New York, Rizzoli Bookstore, cosponsored by The New School, New York City, May 2, 2025
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, May 4, 2025
CalArts Classroom Visit, Los Angeles, CA, May 7, 2025
Vromann's Reading with Christopher Santiago, Pasadena, CA, May 14, 2025
Metrograph, Appocalips Film screening, New York, NY May 16 & May 30, 2025
Yu & Me Books Event with Kyle Lucia Wu, New York, NY May 22, 2025
Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival, Brooklyn, NY May 24, 2025

June 2025
Big Book Party, New York, NY, June 7, 2025
Asian American Writers' Reading Workshop with Mia Malhotra, Astoria Bookshop, Astoria, NY, June 17, 2025

August 2025
Emily Dickinson Museum with Lee Ann Roripaugh & Monica Ong, Zoom, August 21, 2025, 6–7pm

October 2025
Renaissance High School Class Visit, Long Beach, CA, October 17, 2025

November 17, 2023, 6:30pm ET
Poetry Reading, Screening, and Q&A for APPOCALIPS
The Shed New York
545 W 30th St
New York, NY 10001
Free tickets here

6:30 pm in the Level 2 Gallery
Be captivated by Cathy Linh Che and Christopher Radcliff’s Appocalips, a three-channel video installation that centers the untold stories of Che’s parents, who while stateless in a refugee camp in 1976, were hired to play as extras in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979).

The artists will hold a poetry reading and conversation with cinematographer/co producer Jess X. Snow inside the Level 2 Gallery at 6:30 pm.

Afterward, Che will sign her children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History and poetry book Split in the McNally Jackson shop in The Doctoroff Lobby. Stay for a reception with the artists in Cedric’s.

November 15, 2023, 7:15pm – 8pm ET
Mapping the Maze Poetry Workshop with Poets & Writers
Zoom

September 15, 2023, 7pm
Unnameable Books with Bill Carty, Paul Hlava Ceballos, and Anastasia Renée
615 Vanderbilt Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11238

August 2, 2023, 7pm ET
Yu & Me Books presents Sally Wen Mao in conversation with Cathy Linh Che
Kingdom of Surfaces Book Launch event
Books Are Magic
225 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY
Free EventBrite RSVP here

An Asian American A to Z Book Tour

Tuesday, May 2nd, 6pm ET
Launch Day Celebration with Haymarket Books (online)
with Kavita Ramchandran & Kyle Lucia Wu; moderated by Jyothi Natarajan

Saturday, May 6th, 2023, 1pm ET
The Curious Reader
Storytime Reading
229 Rock Rd.
Glen Rock, NJ 07452

Sunday, May 7th, 2023, 11am ET
Books Are Magic! with Michele Wong McSween
Storytime Reading
122 Montague Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Sunday, May 7th, 2023, 3pm – 5pm ET
Yu & Me Books
Book Signing & Meet & Greet
44 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10013

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023, 9:30am ET
Allen-Stevenson Upper School
132 E 78th Street
New York, NY 10075

Wednesday, May 10th, 2023, 8pm ET
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Author Talk Event
Online

Thursday, May 11th, 2023, 10:30am ET
Brooklyn Public Library, Kensington Branch
4207 18th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11218

Saturday, May 13th, 2023, 11:00am
Festival of AAPI Books, Long Beach (FAB Long Beach)
Reading & Book Talk
Billie Jean King Main Library, Long Beach
200 W Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802

Monday, May 15th, 2023
UCLA Writing Program
Capstone Class visit

Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
UCLA Lab School with Kyle Lucia Wu
Reading and Classroom Visits with 1st & 2nd Graders

Thursday, May 18th, 2023, 1:30 - 2:20 PM ET
School Library Journal Virtual Day of Dialog with Raj Haldar, Barbara Kerley, Dan Paley, and Gordy Wright
Children’s Book Panel: The World Around Us

Thursday, May 18th, 2023, 7pm PT
Kearny Street Workshop with Jason Bayani, K-Ming Chang, Jennifer S. Cheng, Pik-Shuen Fung, Rachel Khong, Isa Maloof, Mia Malhotra, Shruti Swamy, and Jemimah Wei.
1246 Folsom St
San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Friday, May 19th, 2023, 12pm
Book signing
Green Apple Books
1231 9th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122

Friday, May 19th, 2023, 2pm
Book Signing
Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore
2904 College Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705

Saturday, May 20th, 2023, 11am PT
Once Upon a Time with Benson Shum
AAPI Celebration Day
2207 Honolulu Ave
Montrose, CA 91020

Saturday, May 20th, 2023, 5pm PT
Skylight Books with Jessica Abughattas, Mia Alvar, F Douglas Brown, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Vandana Khanna, Kien Lam, and Lisa Lee.
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Monday, May 22nd, 2023, 6pm PT
Little Saigon Creative with Jess Trần Boyd, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Lizzy Chong Baskerville, Brian Dang, Jenne Lobsenz, Troy Osaki, Shankar Narayan, mỹ tâm nguyễn, Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, Putsada Reang, and Shawn Wong
1227 S Weller St, Suite A
Seattle, WA 98144

Saturday, May 27th, 2023, 11:30am ET
Storytime Event
Greenlight Books
686 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tuesday, May 30th, 2023, 7pm ET
APAHM Closeout Party
P&T Knitwear
180 Orchard St
New York, NY 10002

Saturday, June 3, 2023, 3pm – 5pm ET
Book Market Event
Viet Book Fest ‘23
Alta Baja Market
201 E 4th Street
(at 4th Street Market)
Santa Ana, CA 92701

Saturday, March 11th, 2023
DVAN in Seattle, a Poetry Showcase at Little Saigon Creative

Join Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 6-8:00pm PT at Little Saigon Creative for a Poetry Showcase hosted by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)! Come and learn more about the important work DVAN does in celebrating and fostering diasporic Vietnamese literary voices, and see some of our poets in action! We are honored to be joined by Cathy Linh Che, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Jess Boyd, and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai this evening for an intimate and intergenerational dialogue around Vietnamese American poetry. Their words will echo off the walls, and we will be reminded of why our stories matter.

⭐️REGISTER at DVANSeattle.eventbrite.com

Sink: A Coming-of-Age Memoir - Joseph Earl Thomas and Cathy Linh Che

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023 AT 6 PM – 7 PM MST

Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility.

With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, Thomas explores how toxic masculinity and violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, where even in the depths of isolation there were unexpected moments of joy carved out.

Thomas has an MFA in prose from the University of Notre Dame and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. An excerpt of Sink won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, VONA, Tin House, and Bread Loaf.

Thomas will be in conversation with Cathy Linh Che, author of Split, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.

This event will be recorded and available later on the FAN website and our YouTube channel.

AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of SINK from FAN's partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Thomas and Che that will start immediately after the webinar. Copy and paste this link to purchase the book:

More info about the event here.

Woke Baby! Festival at the Schomburg Center Lit Fest 2022
June 18, 2022, 10:30 AM

135th Street - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. STAGE

Children’s Author Readings, Live Music, Yoga and Meditation, Bookmark Making, and Author Signings Powered by Woke Baby!

Featuring Theo Gangi, Cathy Linh Che, Max Michael Jacob, and poets  Soré Agbaje, Stephanie Pachecho, Miah Prescod, Oluwatoyin Kupoluyi, Ayonnah Sullivan and Jasmine Dabney.

Curated and Hosted by Mahogany L. Browne 

Shelley Wong with Cathy Linh Che & Lo Kwa Mei-en
June 15th, 2022, 8pm ET

By Women & Children First

Please join us for a virtual poetry reading celebrating Shelley Wong's new book As She Appears. For this reading and conversation, Wong will be joined by Cathy Linh Che and Lo Kwa Mei-en.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Shelley Wong's debut, As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using art and beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment. The ecstatic joys of Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that "burst into glamour," and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize, and the chapbook RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions, 2017). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2021, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.

Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. She is also the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book A Is for Asian American (Haymarket Books), which will be published in May 2023. She has received awards from MacDowell, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Djerassi, among others. She serves as Executive Director at Kundiman.

Lo Kwa Mei-en wrote YEARLING (Alice James Books) and THE BEES MAKE MONEY IN THE LION (Cleveland State University Poetry Center). She is a Kundiman fellow and social services advocate from Singapore and Ohio, where she lives and works in Cincinnati.

Please note: Our virtual events are recorded and viewable anytime on Women & Children First's Crowdcast Channel. The recordings are later uploaded with closed captioning to our YouTube Channel within a week or two of the event. 

Image description: an orange rectangular banner featuring the book cover for As She Appears and photographs of authors Shelley Wong, Cathy Linh Che, and Lo Kwa Me-in. Text reads: Women & Children First presents a virtual event Shelley Wong with Cathy Linh Che and Lo Kwa Me-in, Wednesday, June 15 at 7 PM CT via Crowdcast.

“Give New York To a Poet”— #AnaïsNin

Featuring: @jivepoetic @adam_falkner @cathylinhche @officiallycy

Curated by the one and only Mahogany Browne!

Join us for late night poems & chunes at @LittleIslandNYC

9pm doors open. Outdoor event.

OPA Live! Family Matters: Writing Immigrant Stories with Karen Lue

May 3, 2022 from noon - 12:30 PM ET
OPA Live! Instagram Live event

Celebrating Kundiman: Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, & Jenny Xie
March 10, 2022

5:00 – 6:30pm PST

ONLINE – Link here to ARC’s YouTube Channel

RSVP on Eventbrite to receive email reminders.

This event will be livestreamed + live captioned

This event is presented by the Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation, with co-sponsorship from the Departments of English and Ethnic Studies

On March 10th, at 5pm pacific, we’ll welcome poet and Kundiman Executive Director Cathy Linh Che (author of Split) to the ARC virtual stage, along with two poets who’ve benefitted from the teaching and mentorship in the remarkable Kundiman Asian American writing collective: Chen Chen (author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Range of Possibilities) and Jenny Xie (author of Eye Level). This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses initiative generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation. The reading will be livestreamed and live captioned, and is free and open to the public.

Coining a Wishing Tower launch
Ruth Awad, Cathy Linh Che, & Ayesha Raees
March 12th at 4pm EST
Platypus Press IG Live

Herricks High School Conference & Retreat with Arun Venugopal (nonfiction/journalism), Margo Rabb (fiction), and Vijay Seshadri (poetry)
March 18, 2022
8am–1pm ET

Writers Are Laborers, Too: Building a Road to Relief, Recovery, & Representation
(Cathy Linh Che, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, David Haynes, David Kipen)
March 24th, 2022, 1:45pm – 3:00pm ET, AWP Conference, virtual

In the wake of COVID, arts communities, including literary communities and artists, have been devastated. As we emerge, arts activists are looking beyond relief to new modes for supporting artists and the arts. Can there be a new new deal for artists? What might it include? Four thinkers explore how the arts build equity and discuss art as labor, art as a component of repair and reparation, and current initiatives designed to create a richer, more abundant future for working artists.

Creative Politics, Political Poetics: Asian American Literary Activism
(Purvi Shah, Cathy Linh Che, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Sejal Shah, Ching-In Chen)
March 26, 2022, 3:20pm–4:35pm ET, AWP Conference, virtual

Our discussion room will explore literary activism, art and community-building, and literary and academic change-making through five different vantages. In particular, we will share Asian American approaches to crossracial organizing, improvisational pedagogies, neurodiversity, and literary activism in and beyond the academy. We will include examples, generative writing, and somatic and embodied activities for participants to engage, interact, and create so we move toward liberation collectively.

DVAN’s Accented Series: Tea & Tarot with Hoa Nguyen
April 12, 2022

Joshua Nguyen and friends poetry reading
Elliott Bay Books via Zoom
with Gabriel Bates, William Nu’utupu Giles, and Joshua Nguyen
January 17, 2022, 6pm PT

Emergent Grammars Reading
Beyond Baroque via Zoom
with Truong Tran, Mai Der Vang, & Khaty Xiong
This reading honors Truong Tran's forthcoming BOOK OF THE OTHER (Kaya Press) and highlights a line-up of Southeast Asian poets whose works engage with the diaspora and the assorted grammars of grief.
November 17, 2021, 6pm PT

Different Versions of Home
Asian American Writers Workshop
moderating a conversation with Lawrence Minh Bui Davis, Snigdha Sur, and Jafreen Uddin
Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 7:00pm ET

Saltonstall Residency Open House
with Lydia Baker, Frank Chang, Natalie de Segonzac, & Elena Sheppard
Sunday, October 10, 2021, 2:30pm

Reading Celebrating Susan Nguyen’s Dear Diaspora
VIRTUAL event at Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)
Tuesday, Sept 7 at 6 pm Pacific Time

Sewanee Writers Conference Reading
Friday, July 23, 3pm
with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Sandra Gail Lambert, and Xandria Phillips
Sewanee, TN

The American Literature of Transnational Feminisms, New York University
Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2 p.m. Eastern 

Brooklyn Rail: Radical Poetry Reading with Mahogany L. Browne
Mahogany L. Browne curates the 34th Radical Poetry Reading featuring poetry read by Camryn Bruno, Adam Falkner, Cathy Linh Che, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Suzi Q. Smith, and Caroline Rothstein.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Vietnamese Literature in English, Yale University
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 4 p.m. Eastern / 1 p.m. Pacific

2021 AAAS Creative Politics, Political Poetics: An Ecology of Change
This 2021 AAAS roundtable explores activism, literary and academic engagement, and community-building through five different vantages. It speaks to the fundamental questions of being in relationship -- particularly language and change, the body politic, an ecology of activist poetics. Including embodied activities as well as space for participants to engage, interact, and create in session.
Featuring Purvi Shah, Ching-In Chen, Cathy Linh Che, Sejal Shah, and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis.
Friday, April 9, 2021 at 5 PM PDT

Women Warriors: A Solidarity Reading

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2021
7:00 PM

“I had forgotten this chant that was once mine, given me by my mother, who may not have known its power to remind. She said I would grow up a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan. I would have to grow up a warrior woman.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Join us for a marathon reading featuring a powerhouse collective of Asian American women. In the aftermath of the horrific murders in Atlanta, GA, we offer this space as one for grieving, healing, and empowering. During a time marked by tragedy, anger, and loss, we look to our artistry to find and celebrate the resilience and brilliance of each and every woman warrior.

TUNE IN FOR READINGS BY:

Hala Alyan | Gina Apostol | Tina Cane | Jennifer Chang | Tina Chang | Victoria Chang | Cathy Linh Che | Marilyn Chin | Christina Chiu | Susan Choi | Mai Der Vang | Tarfia Faizullah | Monica Ferrell | Sarah Gambito | Kimiko Hahn | Nathalie Handal | Maxine Hong Kingston | Emily Jungmin Yoon | E. J. Koh | Eugenia Leigh | Muriel Leung | Marie Myung-Ok Lee | Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Wang Ping | Paisley Rekdal | Brynn Saito | Purvi Shah | Brenda Shaughnessy | Monica Sok | Adrienne Su | Adeeba Talukder | Jia Tolentino | Barbara Tran | Monique Truong | Sally Wen Mao | Jane Wong | Jenny Xie | Ishle Yi Park | Monica Youn | Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai | C Pam Zhang

This event is presented in collaboration and partnership with Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang and the PEN America Literary Action Coalition.

March 5th, 2021, 6:20pm – 7:20pm ET, at AWP Conference

After Sexual Misconduct: A Community Dialogue for Survivors and Allies (Khadijah Queen, Lynn Melnick, Sarah Cheshire, Cathy Linh Che) What comes after survival? Through this facilitated dialogue, we hope to create an intentional space for those whose writing has been shaped by sexual misconduct to come together, find solidarity, and discuss ways that we can continue to free our communities from violence, while fostering personal, collective, and creative healing. Open to all survivors and allies. This event will take place over Zoom.

MARCH 4: ASIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS

6:30–7:45 PM CT/7:30–8:45 PM ET

Asian American Caucus at AWP, Portland, 2019. Photo Credit: Faisal Mohyuddin

How can Asian American writers build a more robust network? What does it mean to be a writer of color in these times? This fifth annual Asian American Caucus is a town hall-style hang out and community space. Come meet other Asian American writers and discuss fellowships, publication opportunities, and resources available to support you. Organized by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Kaya Press, Kundiman, the Asian American Literary Review, Kearny Street Workshop, Hyphen, and Smithsonian’s APAC. This meeting will be held over Zoom. It is free and all Asian American writers, with a room cap of 500 participants. For those interested in attending, who do not have AWP Conference registrations, please register here, and a link will be sent out 15 minutes before the event start time.

Featuring: Cathy Linh Che at Kundiman, Neelanjana Banerjee at Kaya Press, Jason Bayani at Kearny Street Workshop, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis at the Asian American Literary Review and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Esther Kim at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Grace Jahng Lee at Hyphen Magazine.

Find more information at AWP and on the Kundiman calendar.

Feb 19, 2021, 10PM ET

The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is collaborating with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American (APA) Center to hosted ACCENTEDiRL: Dialogues in Diaspora.

This Spring 2021, ACCENTEDiRL will feature authors, artists, poets, and cultural producers across the Southeast Asian diaspora in a series of four free virtual events hosted on Facebook Live and YouTube, hosted by Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.

For the first installation of this series, we'll be enjoying "A Night of Poetry" with Cathy Linh Che, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Bao Phi, and Paul Tran!

ABOUT THE HOST:

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, The Refugees, and Race and Resistance: Literature, Politics and Asian America. His most recent book was Chicken of the Sea, done with his son Ellison. His next book is The Committed, the sequel to The Sympathizer.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Philip Nguyen is the producer of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora presented by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). He teaches Asian American Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and is the Community Organizing Manager for the Vietnamese American Roundtable, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in San Jose, California. Philip serves as the President of the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) and as the Co-Chair of the Young Vietnamese Americans (YVA) Committee for PIVOT - The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization.

This project blends DVAN's ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora show with the Smithsonian APA Center's Heritage iRL to engage with audiences from across the world in intimate, lively conversations about culture, heritage, and narrative.

October 1, 2020, 7PM ET

Join us for our new literary arts series, LEAF Lit Live!

FEATURED POETS:

- Mahogany L. Browne (https://mobrowne.com/index.html)
- Cathy Linh Che (https://www.cathylinhche.com)
- Lynne Procope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Procope)
- Cheryl Boyce-Taylor (www.cherylboycetaylor.net)

Hosted by Lynne Procope and James Navé (www.jamesnave.com)

We have the power to change the end of the story! Join us for our inaugural LEAF Lit Live! and help LEAF Global Arts continue its rich poetic tradition, which began with the original LEAF Poetry Slam 25 years ago at the first LEAF Festival. It’s time to push the boundaries of the ARTS World and to let black, brown, and indigenous artists be genuinely seen and heard.

Suggested donation $15 for the poets. Give what you can, more if you have it, or give less if times are hard. For donations: https://jamesnave.com/leaflitlive

September 30, 2020, 6PM ET

A Reading & Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Ross Gay, moderated by Cathy Linh Che & Malcolm Tariq

In celebration of the publication months of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments and Ross Gay’s Be Holding: A Poem, we’re co-hosting a virtual reading with Cave Canem and Milkweed Editions! Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay will read and join Cathy Linh Che of Kundiman and Malcolm Tariq of Cave Canem in conversation. This reading will be held over Zoom at 6:00 PM ET on Wednesday, September 30th. We’ll send out a Zoom link one week in advance to everyone registered. The first 100 participants can join the Zoom webinar. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook for everyone else. RSVP and be sure to order your copy of World of Wonders and Be Holding: A Poem from Bookshop.org! Registration for the reading here and YouTube of the event here.