{"id":1444,"date":"2010-11-11T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:17:50","slug":"bao-phi-on-a-decade-of-asian-am-spoken-word-a-personal-history-and-my-favorite-asian-am-recordings-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2010\/11\/bao-phi-on-a-decade-of-asian-am-spoken-word-a-personal-history-and-my-favorite-asian-am-recordings-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bao Phi on a Decade of Asian Am Spoken Word"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bao Phi<\/a> has been a\u00a0visionary performance poet since 1991, and is the best Vietnamese spoken word artist out there, period. Heck, he’s in the running for the best Asian American spoken word artist right now. Here we share some videos of his performances–you have to see “You Bring Out the Vietnamese in Me”–and his thoughts on Asian American spoken word.\u00a0He\u00a0was born in Viet Nam and raised in the Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis. A spoken-word artist and activist for the past 15 years, he has performed and taught at venues and schools across the nation, including the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9 and the Asian American Writers Workshop in New York City, several National Poetry Slams, the University of Pennsylvania, Amherst College, the Kennedy Center, and Stanford University.\u00a0Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry, and his poem appeared in the 2006 Best American Poetry<\/em> anthology.\u00a0He has issued two CDs of his work,\u00a0Refugeography<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0Flares,<\/em> as well as a book,\u00a0Surviving the Translation: Collected Poems from 1993-2002.<\/em><\/p>\n