Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) will host award-winning author and poet Bao Phi on Monday, May 20, as a part of the “Contemporary Conversations” series celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The free event, titled “Footprints on Different Ponds: An Evening with Bao Phi,” will take place at the Gaithersburg Library.
Bao Phi will discuss his work as a children’s author and a poet. He is the author of the award-winning books A Different Pond, Song I Sing, Thousand Star Hotel, Hello Mandarin Duck! and My Footprints. Awards for his work include the prestigious Caldecott Medal, Charlotte Zolotow Award, Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, and a Minnesota Book Award from the Friends of the Saint Paul Library.
Bao’s work has been featured in two collections from Coffee House Press, Asian American Literary Review, and in the Anthology The Spoken Word Revolution. His fiction and essays have also appeared in Octavia’s Brood: Stories from Social Justice Movements and A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.
The event takes place at 6 p.m. on May 20 at Gaithersburg Library located at 18330 Montgomery Village Avenue. There will be a book signing reception after the main program featuring complementary light fare. There will be some of Bao Phi’s books available for purchase at the event. Visit the Friends of the Library Montgomery County (FOLMC) website to purchase books online.
To attend the free program, you must register, even though the program itself is free. Residents can register to attend in-person on the MCPL website at this link.
MCPL and the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County cosponsor the “Contemporary Conversations” series.
Learn about Bao Phi on his website, here.
Photo taken by Anna Min.
