“Poetry of Transnational Immigration: Phan Nhiên Hạo’s Reading”

Hao Phan
Southeast Asia Curator,
Northern Illinois University Libraries

Hao Phan (Phan Nhiên Hạo) is the Curator of the Southeast Asia library collection at Northern Illinois University and a published poet. He is the author of three collections of poetry written in Vietnamese and two collections of poetry translated into English. His recent book, Paper Bells (The Song Cave, 2021), translated by Hai-Dang Phan, was on the Longlist of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards for poetry in translation, and on the Shortlist of the 2021 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. In his reading, “Poetry of Transnational Immigration, Phan Nhien Hao’s Reading,” Hao will read some of his poems and discuss his writing as an immigrant existing between two cultures and languages.

Noon
Friday, October 6
Peters Campus Life Building 100 and online (registration required for online attendance: https://niu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduqqqj0jG9ZJ9cqjFXwBt_VT1b42dfnS)

Contact the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at cseas@niu.edu