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ÁCCENTED #33 | Oliver de la Paz & Kenneth Nguyen

This is a video recording of DVAN's 33rd episode of ÁCCENTED, featuring Oliver de la Paz & Kenneth Nguyen in conversation with hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen & Philip Nguyen! The virtual conversation was recorded on December 14, 2023. ABOUT THE GUESTS Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His newest work, The Diaspora Sonnets, is published by Liveright Press (2023), was a winner of the2023 New England Book Award, and was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award. With Stacey Lynn Brown he co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Oliver serves as the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU. Kenneth Nguyen is a Los Angeles based podcaster and film producer with over two decades in the Vietnamese media space. Kenneth hosts and produces The Vietnamese podcast with over 300 episodes recorded. Kenneth Nguyen was a founding partner of Wave Releasing, the first U.S. based Vietnamese language film distribution company. Kenneth managed distribution on Vietnamese language films such as OWL AND THE SPARROW, DE MAI TINH, and MAIKA. He currently is a founding partner at EAST Films with several film projects in development. He has served honorably as a former U.S. Marine and holds a B.A degree from USC in Visual Anthropology with an emphasis in Cinema Studies. ABOUT THE HOSTS Viet Thanh Nguyen is a writer, co-founder of DVAN, and professor at the University of Southern California. His debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His other books include: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), The Refugees (2017), The Committed (2021), and A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (2023), and To Save and to Destroy (2025). Philip Nguyen is the Executive Director of the Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR). He holds an M.A. in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University, where he currently teaches Vietnamese American literature and history. Philip has worked with various community organizations to advocate for and amplify Vietnamese American voices, including DVAN and PIVOT. ABOUT DVAN The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is dedicated to moving the voices and stories of the Vietnamese diaspora from the margins to the center. For over 20 years, DVAN has uplifted diasporic writers and artists through community events, writing residencies, and publishing opportunities, ensuring their perspectives reshape and expand the broader cultural narrative. Learn more at dvan.org. ABOUT ÁCCENTED ÁCCENTED is DVAN’s acclaimed talk show and podcast, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and community leader Philip Nguyen. Since launching in 2020, ÁCCENTED has become a global platform for dynamic, thought-provoking conversations that amplify the voices of writers, poets, visual artists, and other cultural producers of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.