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A blog of Laotian American Writer Bryan Thao Worra and various guests discussing Lao American literature

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Booking Bryan Thao Worra

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January 18, 2022

Patreon Poems 2015-2021

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January 14, 2022

Writing Poetry in the Dark arriving 2022

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January 13, 2022January 13, 2022

Performances and Readings: 2001-2021

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January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

Bamboo Among the Oaks Turns 20

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January 10, 2022January 10, 2022

1998-2021 Publications List

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January 10, 2022

2022 Study Guide Resources for Before We Remember We Dream

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January 10, 2022January 16, 2022

2021 Blurbs

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January 7, 2022January 11, 2022

Remembering John Berryman (1914-1972)

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December 31, 2021

2021 Poetry Readings

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About

Bryan Thao Worra is the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, a 40-year old international literary organization celebrating the poetry of the imaginative and the fantastic. A Lao American writer, he holds over 20 awards for his writing and community leadership including an NEA Fellowship in Literature and was a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the 2012 London Summer Games. In 2009 he received an Asian Pacific American Leadership Award from the governor’s Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans.

He also holds a 2011 Youth Media Innovation Award from the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and won the 2014 Elgin Award for Book of the Year from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. He has presented at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Loft Literary Center, Intermedia Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, the Institute for Contemporary Art, among many others, and recently as a Visiting Artist with University of Merced Center for the Humanities. He is the first Lao writer to be professional member of the Horror Writers Association and trained several years with Asian Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy on social justice during their National Gender Equity Campaign.

One of the co-founders of the National Lao American Writers Summit, he is the author of 6 books, with work appearing internationally in Australia, Canada, Scotland, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, and Pakistan.

You can support his work at: https://www.patreon.com/thaoworra

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