Outspoken: Poets of the Diaspora II, featuring Lan Tran

On April 24th, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network presented “Outspoken: Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora II” at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Six writers read from their works at this event, with poetry being somewhat loosely defined. This was the second time that DVAN put on this event, with sponsorship from Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.  You can check out photographs of the writers from the first time we did it here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

For the second event, the featured writers were Anhvu Buchanan, Andrew Lam, Kim-An Lieberman, Dao Strom, Lan Tran, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. Periodically over the next few weeks, diacCRITICS will post the videos of each of these writers’ performances. The emcee is Viet Nguyen. Keep checking back!

The second reader featured (in reverse alphabetical order) is Lan Tran.

Lan Tran is the writer/performer of three off-Broadway shows, “How to Unravel Your Family,” which played to a sold-out audience in the Lincoln Center Theater-produced American Living Room Festival, and “Elevator/Sex” and “SmartAss,” which both premiered in New York at the West End Theatre. Her work has also been featured on NPR, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s REDCAT Theater, and the Ford Amphitheatre Complex. Lan has published short fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting and poetry in various anthologies and literary journals, most recently A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009). She is currently working on two screenplays, Mediocre Poker and Sparkly Things.

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