[MN] This Friday at the Loft: Parallax
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Friday, January 26th at 7:00 PM the Loft Literary Center (www.loft.org)
hosts Hmong and Laotian American poets Pacyinz Lyfoung and Bryan Thao
Worra for a free one-night-only performance: Parallax.
Explore the Hmong and Lao experience from perspectives you've never
seen before, from Asian American activism to the edges of science
fiction, mythology and the secret wars of the CIA.
There are a few more details on all of this up at my blog at
http://thaoworra.blogspot.com
Among the poems that I will be reading will be a premiere of The Deep
Ones, and a few other examples of my speculative poetry work. I wish I
could name a few more concrete examples, but there's a random factor to
the final line-up of pieces I'll be sharing during that evening.
This reading kicks off the new monthly Un-named Poetry Series of Hmong
and Lao writers that lasts until March, and is funded in part by
COMPAS. The Loft is located at 1011 Washington Ave. N. Minneapolis, MN.
Here are some bios on my co-reader and I:
Pacyinz Lyfoung is a French-born and raised, Minnesota-grown,
Hmong/Asian American woman poet, activist and professional. She
performs widely across the country and has been published in Paj Ntaub
Voice: The Hmong Literary Journal, the Asian American Renaissance
journals, Bamboo Among the Oaks and To Sing Along: MN Women Poets from
Pre-Territorial Days to the Present. Visit her blog at
http://pacyinz.blogspot.com
Bryan Thao Worra has been featured in over 60 international
anthologies, journals, newspapers and magazines. His work has been
published in Singapore, Germany, England, Australia, and across the
U.S. Visit him at http://thaoworra.blogspot.com
Again, if you can join us, it will be great!