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Next reading! Hope to see you there.

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Hope you can join me to celebrate the release of my new book The Peeling of a Name at Black Bird Bookstore in San Francisco. More info found on the link below. Register at the link below to be entered for a prize at the event!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-anhvu-buchanans-the-peeling-of-a-name-tickets-657381715407

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My newest book The Peeling of a Name is available to order now!!! Click on link to get a copy 🙏🏽

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Excited to be reading in person for the first time since Pandemic and only doing it to celebrate this important moment. The release of Truong Tran’s incredible new release Book of The Other. It’s Friday November 19th at Green Apple Books (On the Park) at 7 PM. You can also tune in via Zoom if you can’t make it. More information can be found at the link below:

https://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-truong-tran-anhvu-buchanan-carolyn-ho-and-daniel-suarez

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New Poem in the newest issue of Parentheses Journal

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New poem published today in the newest issue of Bodega Magazine. One of my favorite literary journals. Check it out! 

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I have a new poem for the late great Anthony Bourdain. Hope you check it out and get to eat Viet food soon! Maybe even support a local Vietnamese restaurant. 

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This is one of the many recent attacks on the Asian community. If you are angry or want to do something about what’s happening right now in our country, please consider donating to this or the many others campaings going on right now. #stopasianhate

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Reading today for the Jingletown Reading Series!! Zoom info on the picture. Here’s the facebook link with more details:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2686717378325533/

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I have a new poem out in the Hobart. Check it out it’s dedicated to the queen Sandra Oh!

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Thank you RBG. One of my favorite times of the school year is reading I Dissent and seeing and hearing all my students being inspired by you and the life you led. You deserve all the rest. 

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Hero of the Day: Naomi Osaka, 2020 US Open Champion. Black Lives Matter.

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Sealey Challenge 2020

I finished the Sealey challenge. It was one of the most challenging and rewarding things I’ve ever done. Here’s my list of all the amazing poetry I read in August. 

1. Soft Science by Franny Choi

2. There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker

3. Madness by Sam Sax

4. Delivered by Sarah Gambito  

5. The New Testament by Jericho Brown

6. Afterland by Mai Der Vang

7. Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day 

8. Juvenilia by Ken Chen

9. Reenactments by Hai-Dang Phan

10. When I Grow Up I Want to Be A List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen 

11. Library of Small Catastrophies by Alison C. Rollins

12. feeld by Jos Charles

13. We Play A Game by Duy Doan

14. Silencer by Marcus Wicker

15. Homie by Danez Smith

16. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

17. OBIT by Victoria Chang

18. Burnings by Ocean Vuong

19. Calling A Wolf A Wolf by Kaveh Akbar 

20. man on extremely small island by Jason Koo 

21. 1919 by Eve L. Ewing

22. Ghost Of By Diane Khoi Nugyen

23. The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky

24. La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living by Jennifer Hasegawa

25. Post Traumatic Hood Disorder by David Tomas Martinez 

26. Woke: A Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood

27. Hunting for Izotes by harold terezon

28. Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

29. Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garica 

30. Finna by Nate Marshall 

31. ordinary beast by Nicole Sealey 

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RIP Chadwick Boseman. You were an inspiration. Wakanda Forever.

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John Lewis, you will be missed. 

Rest In Peace.

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