Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He is the author of two collections of short stories, five books of poems, a novel, and numerous translations of Vietnamese poetry and fiction. He is the recipient of a Pew Foundation grant, the David T. Wong Fellowship, a Lannan Residency and the Asian American Literary award. Dinh is a 2013 Avenali Resident Fellow in the department of South & Southeast Asian Studies.

Anhvu Buchanan is the author of The Disordered and Backhanded Compliments & Other Ways to Say I Love You. He is the recipient of the 2010 James D. Phelan Award and an Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His poems have also appeared in the Columbia Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, The Journal, The Minnesota Review, and more. Buchanan received an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and blogs for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network.

Linh Dinh often muses on the shelf life of poets. Now he has a chance to hold his own with some fresh blood. San Francisco-based Anhvu Buchanan is reviving a revolution he dubs the Bromanticism Poetry Movement—cheeky love poems to his bros, Ryan Gosling, Kanye West, Chuck Norris, and Linh Dinh. Both poets have been known to flirt with the absurd. This evening of poetry will cut across generations, space and sensibilities to showcase the diverse works of two Vietnamese American writers that don't fit neatly into diaspora or literary frames.