
Bao Phi
Bao Phi has been a performance poet since 1991. He is a published poet, spoken word champ, Program Director at the Loft, and lifelong nerd. Raised in a Vietnam refugee family in Phillips, Minnesota, he's been on HBO Def Poetry, published in Best American Poetry as well as his own poetry book by Coffee House Press, and has published both online and on the page essays on a wide range of topics from Asian Americans in video games, police brutality, hip hop, and zombie apocalypse. He was named Best Spoken Word Artist by the Star Tribune and an Artist of the Year by City Pages. He's working on a radical Vietnamese American zombie novel.


Power Rangers Brings Asian American Poverty Front and Center

KidLit: Recommended Reading on Justice and Understanding

Happy Nerd Fathers of Color Day

Now or Later: We’ll Need to Deal with That Death on The Walking Dead

A Ghost Among Zombies: The Curious Omission of Glenn of The Walking Dead

Here I Am: Celebrating Diverse Experiences in Children’s Books

An Open Letter to The New York Times’ Critic Manohla Dargis about Big Hero 6

Have Anarchy and Eat it Too — The Purge: Anarchy Doesn’t Quite Make It

Why Did I Watch the New Transformers Movie?

Ready for the World: The Magic of Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away

Missing Polygons: Asians, Race, and Video Games

Man of Tai Chi: Keanu and Tiger’s Unlikely Bromance

Grumpy Vietnamese Guy’s Favorite Video Games of 2013
Not Gonna Make it: In Memoriam

Not Gonna Make It: Characters of Color in Sci-Fi, Action, and Horror

The Yellow Plague: Asian Americans in Zombie and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Miss Zaigon 2: Zombie Revenge at Cần Thơ
