Author: DVAN Reading Series | Southeast Asian Solidarity

Welcome

DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) is thrilled to present poets Mai Der Vang, Anhvu Buchanan, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Trinh Lê in their winter reading event at Medicine for Nightmares! Join us for an exciting evening of poetry.

This event is FREE, but space is limited. Please RSVP to ensure your seat.

If you'd like to request special accommodations, please email hello@dvan.org.

ABOUT THE READERS

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 LÊ is a Pushcart-nominated poet and book artist of Vietnamese origin. Their writing appears in "Broken Promises: Artists in Solidarity Through the Lens of James Baldwin," MORIA, and The Ana. Trinh self-publishes under the name B!NGO Press. You can find them at @emojipoetics on Instagram.

DVAN empowers and promotes diasporic Vietnamese and Southeast Asian literary voices through nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, fostering understanding, dialogue, and championing diverse stories for future generations, acknowledging the complexities and distinctions within the transnational diaspora community. They are refugees, immigrants, survivors and descendants, and their stories must be heard.

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