June 7, 2024
33rd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf
Fresno State
Fresno, CA
May 15, 2024
MFA Programs in Writing present readings by Anthony Cody and Mai Der Vang
UC Irvine
Irvine, CA
May 3, 2024
Penumbra Launch
CSU Stanislaus
Turlock, CA
April 17, 2024
Fluid Vessels Reading Series
Montreal International Poetry Prize
[Virtual]
April 11, 2024
Words@Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI
April 4, 2024
Powell Scholars Program
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA
March 22, 2024
A Celebration of Hmong American Literature and Art: Kao Kalia Yang and Pao Houa Her in Conversation with Mai Der Vang
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
March 20, 2024
To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Norton Lectures, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 21, 2024
Verse Like Water
Central Lakes College
Brainerd, MN
December 2, 2023
Medicine for NIghtmares Bookstore & Gallery
A Poetics of Now: The Ancestral and Archive with Chaun Webster and Anthony Cody
San Francisco, CA
October 4, 2023
Fresno State MFA Faculty Reading
Fresno, CA
June 1, 2023
UC Santa Cruz, Living Writers Series
[Virtual]
February 7, 2023
Fresno Pacific University
Fresno, CA
December 15, 2022
Marin Poetry Center
Mill Valley, CA
November 19, 2022
2022 Southern California Poetry Festival
Beyond Baroque
Venice, CA
October 28, 2022
Friends of the Auberry Library
Auberry, CA
September 15, 2022
Respite by the River
San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust, Inc.
Fresno, CA
August 20-21, 2022
Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival
Yosemite National Park
August 16, 2022
Talk of the Stacks: A Pulitzer Poetry Celebration
Diane Seuss and Mai Der Vang in conversation with Jeff Shotts
Friends of the Hennepin County Library
[Virtual]
August 11, 2022
Summer Residency Reading: Mai Der Vang and Anthony Cody
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Tucson, AZ
August 7, 2022
An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Foerster
Hudson Valley Writers Center
[Virtual]
June 1, 2022
Equity on the Mall
[Virtual]
May 20, 2022
SEASGRAD Student Conference
Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Association
UC Riverside
[Virtual]
May 18, 2022
Rupturing the Poem: A Workshop
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
[Virtual]
May 7, 2022
Bay Area Book Festival
Relationships, Reckonings & Remembrances: A Reading by Three California Poets
With Amanda Moore and Christine No, moderated by Maw Shein Win
Berkeley, CA
May 3, 2022
Cultural Historical Awareness Program
College of the Sequoias
Visalia, CA
April 29, 2022
Southeast Asia Club: Diaspora Discussion
Brandeis University
[Virtual]
April 23, 2022
LA Times Festival of Books
Los Angeles, CA
April 13, 2022
2022 MacLean Symposium on Asian American Literature
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO
April 1, 2022
Juniper Literary Festival
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
February 25, 2022
Creative Writing Collaboratorium Conference
Merritt Writing Program
University of California, Merced
[Virtual]
January 29, 2022
Writing and Advocacy: The Power of Written Words with Lisa Herrick
Central California Asian Pacific Women
[Virtual]
December 28, 2021
A Solstice and Shabe Yalda Celebration for Afghanistan
Artivista Productions
[Virtual]
November 17, 2021
Emergent Grammars, a poetry reading celebrating the release of Truong Tran’s book of the other: small in comparison
A Reading with Truong Tran, Mai Der Vang, Cathy Linh Che, & Khaty Xiong
Kaya Press and Beyond Baroque
[Virtual]
November 14-21, 2021
A New Reckoning: Two Graywolf Poets on Selfhood, Survival & the Second Book
Miami Book Fair
[Virtual]
November 10, 2021
Reading with Randa Jarrar and Venita Blackburn
New Books by MFA Faculty
Fresno State MFA Program in Creative Writing
[Virtual]
October 28, 2021
Reading, in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Program in Creative Writing UChicago
Seminary Co-op Bookstore – Chicago, IL
[Virtual]
October 22, 2021
Author Reading: Mai Der Vang & Friends
Hmong American Ink and Stories (HAIS)
Fresno State
[Virtual]
October 21, 2021
Reading with Susan Nguyen, Josh Nguyen
Moon Palace Books – Minneapolis, MN
[Virtual]
October 12, 2021
The Literary Arts Institute of the College of St. Benedict
College of St. Benedict
[Virtual]
October 8-9, 2021
Reading and Workshop
Poetry Society of South Carolina
[Virtual]
October 3, 2021
Poetry in Times of Crisis
2021 Brooklyn Book Festival
[Virtual]
October 1, 2021
Reading, in conversation with Kao Kalia Yang
SubText Bookstore – St. Paul, MN
East Side Freedom Library
[Virtual]
September 26, 2021
Reading, in conversation with Monica Sok
Eastwind Books – Berkeley, CA
[Virtual]
September 19-28, 2021
Collective Trauma Summit
[Virtual]
September 13, 2021
Reading with Susan Nguyen, Dena Rod, Felicia Zamora
Green Apple Books – San Francisco, CA
[Virtual]
June 15, 2021
Literary conversation with Souvankham Thammavongsa
Mémoire d’encrier
[Virtual]
May 27, 2021
California Dreaming: Asian American Arts, Culture, and Place
An Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Event
USC Visions and Voices
[Virtual]
May 19-20, 2021
Poetry, Resilience, & Refugee Experience
Part of The First Function of Poetry: A Social Justice Series
– May 19, 2021: Discussion + Q&A: Poetry and Refugee Communities
– May 20, 2021: Poetry Reading: Dunya Mikhail and Mai Der Vang
Woodland Pattern
[Virtual]
April 8, 2021
Women Warriors: A Solidarity Reading
Asian American Writers’ Workshops
[Virtual]
March 23, 2021
Before Time Reading Series: March Equinox
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop
[Virtual]
November 15, 2020
Border Line: Poems of Migration, Anthology
[Virtual]
November 12, 2020
Alumni Poetry Reading, Columbia University, School of the Arts
[Virtual]
September 20, 2020
America, We Call Your Name, Anthology
[Virtual]
August 6, 2020
Pedestal Magazine
[Virtual]
November 7, 2019
Fall Immigrant / Refugee Poetry Reading
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
October 26, 2019
MFA Faculty Reading
Fresno State MFA
Fresno, CA
August 2-4, 2019
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
2019 Asian American Literature Festival
Washington, DC
July 31, 2019
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
Poetry of Our World: Mai Der Vang & Chris Abani
Farmington, CT
April 27, 2019
MFA Program at Fresno Reading w/ Brynn Saito
Fresno Poets Association
Fresno, CA
April 6, 2019
Sacramento Poetry Center 2019 Spring Conference
Sacramento, CA
April 4, 2019
La Crosse Reads
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
La Crosse, WI
March 27-30, 2019
AWP 2019
Portland, OR
- [PANEL] Saturday, March 30
The Border Against Belonging: American Occupation in Asian American Poetry - [READING] Saturday, March 30
A Reading by Toi Derricotte, Adrian Matejka, and Mai Der Vang, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets
March 13, 2019
Porterville College
Porterville, CA
March 7, 2019
Humanities Center at California State University, Chico
Chico, CA
October 14, 2018
Marfa Book Co. at the Crowley Theater, 6 p.m.
Lannan Foundation Writer’s Reading
Marfa, Texas
August 7, 2018
Respite by the River
San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust
Fresno, CA
May 4, 2018
Reading with Jennifer S. Cheng and Emily Yoon
Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 57th Street Books
Chicago, IL
April 30, 2018
Library Book Club at the Poetry Foundation
Chicago, IL
April 21, 2018
Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival
Bronxville, NY
April 11, 2018
Visiting Writers Series at American University
Washington, DC
March 21, 2018
Young Writers’ Conference at Fresno State
Fresno, CA
March 7-10, 2018
AWP Conference
Tampa, FL
- [PANEL] Thursday, March 8
Living, Reading, and Writing the Multilingual Poem
- [READING] Saturday, March 10
Graywolf Debut Poets
February 26, 2018
Reading and Guest Speaker in Poetry, Fresno State
Fresno, CA
February 13, 2018
Poetry Foundation
Chicago, IL
February 6, 2018
Writers@Newark Reading Series, with Colson Whitehead
Rutgers University, Newark
Newark, NJ
January 30, 2018
Reading at Georgetown University, with Solmaz Sharif
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice
Washington, DC
January 16, 2018
Reading at UC Davis
Davis, CA
December 13, 2017
Poetry Winter Party
Poetry Foundation
Chicago, IL
November 18, 2017
Miami Book Fair
Miami, FL
November 1, 2017
Reading at Bennington College
Bennington, VT
October 21, 2017
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
Reading with Rebecca Dunham
Kalamazoo, MI
October 14, 2017
Fall for the Book Festival
Poets of Graywolf, with Susan Stewart
Fairfax, VA
October 2, 2017
Reading with Emily Yoon and Zhou Sivan
Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 57th Street Books
Chicago, IL
September 30, 2017
Central Wisconsin Book Festival
Wausau, WI
September 17, 2017
Brooklyn Book Festival
Poetry as History, History as Poetry
In conversation with Carolyn Forché, Robin Coste Lewis, Erika L. Sánchez, and Ricardo Maldonado
Brooklyn, NY
July 20, 2017
Reading with Brandon Som & Paul Muldoon
Civitella Ranieri
Umbertide, Italy
June 8, 2017
Reading & Reception
Central California Asian Pacific Women
Fresno, CA
June 3, 2017
Bay Area Book Festival
State Lines: California’s New Poets
In conversation with Rebecca Gaydos, C.S. Giscombe, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Arisa White, with John McMurtrie introducing
Berkeley, CA
May 27, 2017
Karst Mountains Will Bloom: A Reading with Pos Moua and Friends
Hosted by Hmong American Writers’ Circle
6 p.m. at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center
Merced, CA
May 25, 2017
Reading at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
May 24, 2017
Reading at UC Irvine
Irvine, CA
May 18, 2017
Graywolf Press
Author and Editor Circle Members Reception
Minneapolis, MN
May 18, 2017
Harding High School
St. Paul, MN
May 17, 2017
East Side Freedom Library
St. Paul, MN
May 16, 2017
Rufus King International High School
Milwaukee, WI
May 16, 2017
Woodland Pattern
Milwaukee, WI
May 12, 2017
The Writer’s Studio Reading Series
7 p.m. at Tri-Chromatic Gallery
1321 J Street
Modesto, CA
May 11, 2017
Remix Reading Series
8 p.m. at Tokyo Garden
1711 Fulton St
Fresno, CA
May 5, 2017
Fresno Poets’ Association Reading Series
Fresno, CA
April 27, 2017
Writers Center at Elgin Community College
Elgin, IL
April 24, 2017
Fresno County Democratic Women’s Club
Monthly Luncheon (closed to public)
Fresno, CA
April 20, 2017
Poetry Reading In Celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA
April 13, 2017
Afterland Book Launch
Hosted by the Hmong American Writers’ Circle
John W. Dodson Theatre, Bitwise
Fresno, CA
April 8, 2017
University of California, Merced
Merritt Writing Program
Creative Writing Collaboratorium Conference
Merced, CA
March 22-24, 2017
University of North Dakota Writers Conference
Grand Forks, ND
February 20-24, 2017
Spring 2017 Writer in Residence
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
February 9, 2017
Still, We Build
A Literary Reading by Hmong American Writers, Hosted by OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates
Washington, DC
February 8-11, 2017
AWP
Washington, DC
READING | 02.09.17 Making Space: A Hmong American Writers’ Circle Reading
PANEL | 02.09.17 We Are Here Because You Were There: United States’ Military Intrusion and the Shifting Landscape of American Poetry
August 9, 2016
Reading: Barkin’ Dog Grill
Modesto, CA
July 31, 2016
Speaker: Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno
June 23, 2016
Speaker: Scholarship Luncheon
Central California Asian Pacific Women
May 25, 2016
Reading: A Symposium: Towards a Critical Refugee Studies
UC Riverside
May 14, 2016
Speaker: CSUF Upward Bound Luncheon
April 27, 2016
Clovis Community College
9:00 a.m. in room AC1-150
April 23, 2016
Fresno LitHop
Organic Roots and Routes: Asian American Writers
Feat. Lee Herrick, Mas Masumoto, Brynn Saito, Mai Der Vang
4:00 p.m. at Mia Cuppa Caffé
Hmong American Writers’ Circle
Feat. Soul Vang, Yia Lee, Mai Der Vang, Andre Yang
6:00 p.m. at Hart’s Haven Used Bookstore
March 31, 2016
Pushing The Margins
Hmong American Writers’ Circle
Off-Site Reading at AWP
6PM
Los Angeles Public Library
December 4, 2015
Southeast Asian American Legacies: 40 Years After the End of the Vietnam War
UC Merced, California Room
November 14, 2015
w/ Khaty Xiong, Poor Anima, A Central Valley Book Launch
Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium
7pm to 8:30pm
September 10, 2015
Fresno Poet Laureate and Friends Poetry Reading
Fresno Arts Council
5pm to 8pm
August 8, 2015
Legacies of War Fundraiser
Berkeley Eat, Reflect, & Act to Save Lives in Laos
Berkeley, CA
4pm to 8pm
May 30, 2015
Fourth Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reading
Featuring Mai Der Vang, Soul Vang, and Yu-Han Chao
Fresno State (Alice Peters Auditorium)
7pm to 8:30pm