VOICES Reading Thursday, 4/18: Hai-Dang Phan (DPC, 7:30 PM)

Thursday, April 18:  Hai-Dang Phan (7:30 PM, DPC)

Introduced by Professor Beth Charlebois

Hai-Dang Phan is a  poet, translator, and essayist. He is the author of the poetry collection "Reenactments" (Sarabande, 2019) and the translator of Phan Nhiên Hạo’s selected volume of poems, "Paper Bells" (The Song Cave, 2020). His poems and translations have appeared in Best American Poetry 2016, New England Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Asymptote, and Mekong Review. Phan is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the American Literary Translators Association. He holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida. He currently teaches at Grinnell College and lives in Iowa City.