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Bao Phi is a Vietnamese-American spoken word artist,[1][2] writer and community activist living in Minnesota. Bao Phi's collection of poems, Sông I Sing, was published in 2011[3] and, Thousand Star Hotel, was published in 2017[4] by Coffee House Press. He has written three children’s books published by Capstone Press. First book, A Different Pond received multiple awards, including the Caldecott Award,[5] Charlotte Zolotow Award,[6] the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature for best picture book, the Minnesota Book Award for picture books.[7]

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Ni says that her family teases her for having thick, round legs like a boy, but really, she is the perfect autumn night sky trapped in a woman's body. When she laughs, you feel night wind blowing through the leaves making them blush and change color. When she laughs, you feel the breath of stars and lunar eclipses under her eyelids. Johnny dances to songs he half understands in English. His hairstyle is like 1-1/2 decades out of style. You know, maybe that brother should button up his silk shirt just like, one or 2 buttons more, chuckles but he's just spent 10 hours today at his job under cars fixing them up for people who assumed his slant eyes were sabotaging their good old American steel, as much as he was fixing them. So who are you to criticize him about what he wears at the club? Viet is as her name suggests, Vietnamese as hell. She only eats Vietnamese food, watches Vietnamese films, speaks fluent Vietnamese, reads Vietnamese literature, hangs out with Vietnamese people, only dates Vietnamese people, and is bisexual so she can be attracted to twice as many Vietnamese people. She drives a Korean car, which is not Vietnamese, but as close as she can get. Hie'u's real name is Huy, and he tells you he may be a descendent of the Nguyen Kings, but he's all queen, baby, recognize. He's been on his feet all day at his job at the casino sliding playing cards like ninja stars across green felt tables, and he wants to forget those faces that could be his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother. Their dreams of fortune crash with the gentle sound of cards flipping onto their bellies. Thi's daddy is a Buddhist, and her mama's a Catholic, and tonight she's holding up a rum and coke and toasting to nondenominational sin, baby. No, she would not like to dance with you, but thank you for asking. She is here in the club to be seen and to chain-smoke; like the cigarettes are burning embers or beacons, paradise dangling just out of reach at the tip of her nose, and her best friend Vien, who's been in love with her since the 5th grade sits with her like he does every night, and though he wishes he could be a cigarette filter so he could know the stain of her lipstick kiss, he says nothing. He has given up on love... but he has not given up on Long Island Iced Teas. And so tonight, he's here to drink and forget the woman he's secretly in love with. Last name Nguyen, all of them-- they're not related, but they're more related than any of them will ever know. They sell cars in Orange County, they sell shoes in Queens. they hustle from White Bear Lake to Frogtown, Minnesota. They drawl their way in your heart through Virginia and Texas. They lost everything to Katrina in New Orleans. They fight for their lives every day in Boston. They bake mango cheesecakes in Oakland and San Francisco. Where they live affects how they feel about the weather and whether or not they say yes when you ask them to step out of their front door for some karaoke or late night Chinese food. They sneak bnh mi sandwiches into bad movies, and they don't see themselves up on that silver screen enough to wish that they were on them. They gamble too much, and they smoke too much, and they look great playing billiards, and their feet hurt after they've been working all day, and they are none of your god damn business. They are one story for every Vietnamese body, one song for every voice that sings. Every Vietnamese name is like a tattoo we all wear, a burst of color we dig deep into our skins.

Early life and education

Bao Phi was born in Saigon, Vietnam as the youngest son to a Vietnamese mother and a Chinese-Vietnamese father.[8] He grew up in the Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis near the Little Earth housing projects.[9] Phi attended Minneapolis South High School and began performing his poetry when competing on the South High speech team in the Creative Expression category in the early 1990s. He attended and graduated from Macalester College, where he was encouraged to pursue creative writing by Native American Literature professor, Diane Glancy.[10]

Poetry, activism and literature

Phi won the Minnesota Grand Poetry Slam twice.[11] He is the first Vietnamese-American man to have appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, and the National Poetry Slam Individual Finalists Stage, where he placed 6th overall out of over 250 national slam poets.[12] Phi has been a featured performer at numerous venues and schools locally and nationally, from the Nuyorican Poet's Café to the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2005, Phi released his CD, Refugeography.[13] Billy Collins selected one of Phi’s poems, "Race," for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006 anthology. Phi is also published in various literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including From Both Sides Now, the Def Poetry Jam anthology, Legacy to Liberation, Screaming Monkeys, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. His poetry is included in the EMC/Paradigm line of English textbooks for high school students, and has done voice work for their educational materials. One of his poems was selected to appear in Minneapolis/Saint Paul city buses in the Poetry in Motion program. He is also the author of the chapbook Surviving the Translation.

Phi has been a featured artist in many community events, rallies and functions. He was involved with the Justice for Fong Lee committee and all three protests against Miss Saigon produced by the Ordway Theater.[14]

Bao Phi's collection of poems, Sông I Sing, was published In 2011 by Coffeehouse Press. It focused on modern Vietnamese-Asian American life with each poem capable of being read for spoken word. The book received a favorable review in The New York Times.[15] In 2017, Phi and illustrator, Thi Bui, released a children's book with Capstone Publishers titled A Different Pond, which earned the prestigious Caldecott Honor.[5]

Phi has taught workshops and performed for youth for organizations from the W.O.C. in Minneapolis to the Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco. He was an advisory panel member, workshop moderator, and performer for Intimacy and Geography, the Asian American Writers' Workshop national poetry festival in New York, and a faculty at Kundiman at Fordham University in 2015. That year, he was also a performer in the diasporic Vietnamese blockbuster variety show, Paris By Night.

The Loft Literary Center

Phi worked at The Loft Literary Center, a nonprofit literary organization in Minneapolis, for more than 20 years, most recently as Program Director. He managed and operated several Loft programs, including Equilibrium, a successful spoken word series he created, which invites nationally recognized artists of color/indigenous artists to share the stage with local Minnesota artists of color/indigenous artists. Equilibrium was awarded the Anti-Racism Initiative award from the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits in 2010. Phi left the Loft in 2022[16] and joined the McKnight Foundation as Arts & Culture program officer.[17]

Awards and honors

Phi has received numerous awards and honors, including multiple Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grants.[18][19] He was also a featured listener in the award-winning documentary film The Listening Project.[20]

Published works

Poetry

  • Thousand Star Hotel, (Coffee House Press, 2017)
  • Sông I Sing, (Coffee House Press, 2011)

Children's literature

Personal life

Bao has a daughter.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ Raphael-Hernandez, Heike; Steen, Shannon (2006-11-01). AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. NYU Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 9780814775813. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  2. ^ DiMaggio, Paul; Fernández-Kelly, Patricia (2010-11-18). Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States. Rutgers University Press. pp. 206–. ISBN 9780813547572. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  3. ^ Phi, Bao (2011). Sông I sing : poems (1st ed.). Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. ISBN 978-1-56689-279-7. OCLC 709681152.
  4. ^ Phi, Bao (2017). Thousand star hotel. Minneapolis. ISBN 978-1-56689-481-4. OCLC 991856736.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ a b CAAM (February 12, 2018). "WRITER BAO PHI AND ILLUSTRATOR THI BUI WIN CALDECOTT HONOR FOR "A DIFFERENT POND"". CAAM.
  6. ^ Hertzel, Laurie. "Minneapolis poet Bao Phi wins award for best picture book in the country". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
  7. ^ "2018 Minnesota Book Award winners announced". MPR News. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
  8. ^ "For the poet Bao Phi, a violent past is never far away". MPR News. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  9. ^ "War Before Memory: A Vietnamese American Protest Organizer's History Against 'Miss Saigon'". Hyphen. September 24, 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  10. ^ Regan, Sheila (May 9, 2012). "Birchbark Books hosts poets Bao Phi and Ed Bok Lee tonight". City Pages. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  11. ^ "MN Original - Bao Phi". Twin Cities PBS. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  12. ^ Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (April 24, 2015). "National Poetry Month: Asian-American Poets to Watch". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  13. ^ "Vietnamese Literature Circle". AsianWeek. November 8, 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01.
  14. ^ Phi, Bao (3 March 2011). "Fong Lee: the human cost and the strength of his family". Star Tribune. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  15. ^ Jennings, Dana (December 19, 2011). "Lyrical Renegades and Free-Range Sages". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "A Fond 'See You Soon' to Bao Phi" by Savannah Brooks, The Loft, July 27, 2022.
  17. ^ "Bao Phi," The McKnight Foundation, accessed November 24, 2022.
  18. ^ "FY 2012 Grantees". Minnesota State Arts Board.
  19. ^ "FY 2015 Grantees". Minnesota State Arts Board.
  20. ^ Machado, Juan (May 14, 2015). "Interview: Vietnamese-American Poet on Challenging the 'Dominant Discourses Regarding Race' in the US". Asia Society.
  21. ^ "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present". American Library Association. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  22. ^ Regan, Sheila (September 10, 2015). "Slam champion Bao Phi reads new poems at the Loft". City Pages.
  23. ^ "About the Author. Bao Phi. Interview". Coffeehouse Press. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2015.

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