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An Asian Am Anthem

Published in: Bum Rush The Page! Def Poetry Jam Anthology Edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera Three Rivers Press, 2001

Dwight Hobbes

City kids have a hard, often despairing way to go: Thien-bao Phi delivers a lyrical testament to how they do it and still find magic in their world. – Dwight Hobbes, Pulse

Graydon Royce

Phi packs his rap with clear images and emotion, painting his city through your mind with a palette of words that tumble effortlessly out of his mouth – close to the street, breathing with the anxious verve of kids surviving the alley and tender with love stolen in an abandoned store. – Graydon Royce, Star Tribune

Calling

Published in: Legacy to Liberation: Writings from Revolutionary Asian America Edited by Fred Ho Big Red Media, 2000

Young Asian in Love and in Motion

Published in: Sexual ORIENTations Journal of the Asian American Renaissance Volume 3, 1998 Legacy to Liberation: Writings from Revolutionary Asian America Edited by Fred Ho Big Red Media, 2000

Act Like You Know

Published in: Legacy to Liberation: Writings from Revolutionary Asian America Edited by Fred Ho Big Red Media, 2000

Pseudo-Autobiography

Published in: Legacy to Liberation: Writings from Revolutionary Asian America Edited by Fred Ho Big Red Media, 2000

Jeremy Swanson

Phi smoothly combines familiar rhyme with subtle, insightful metaphors. -Jeremy Swanson, CD Review of “Flares”, City Pages

Rohan Preston

Bao Phi delivers work that has the urgency of fire. -Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, Free Time Section

Eliza Hoyt

At 24 years old he is nationally recognized for his turbulent, thought provoking poetry on stage. – Eliza Hoyt, Asian American Press