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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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May 5, 2022

Marking 150 Years of Asian Americans in Michigan

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April 29, 2022

Interviewed by Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor

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April 17, 2022

API Day at the MN Capitol: April, 21

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April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

Happy Lao New Year 2022!

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April 7, 2022

Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre releases new book

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April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

Renee Ya releases debut chapbook

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April 7, 2022

Reading from Krysada Panusith Phounsiri’s Every Passing Minute: 4/9, San Diego

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April 1, 2022April 7, 2022

Adventures in Speculative Poetry: National Poetry Month 26

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April 1, 2022

New Book by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

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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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