Appearances at AWP 2024 Conference
Divinatory poetics panel and two readings: Hoa Nguyen appearances at the AWP Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City MO Feb. 7 - 11
Bray brassily: PoemTalk #187 and a Reading by Hoa Nguyen
Listen to a discussion of Mina Loy’s “Love Songs” with Hoa Nguyen, Maya Pindyck & Laynie Browne—see the program notes, get a link to the recording of the podcast, and view a video recording of Hoa’s poetry reading given at the Kelly Writers House the same day.
Poem on PoemTalk Live
Special taping at Kelly Writers House. PoemTalk, a monthly podcast that features poets talking about poems from the PennSound archive, will convene live featuring Kate Colby, Jonathan Dick, and Bethany Swann in conversation on a poem drawn from Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008.
Conversation Series: Poetry as Radicalization & Liberation for BIPOC & Marginalized People
This new conversation series searches for a foundation of thinking on and a collective exploration of poetry’s role in activism and social change from contemporary poets whose art directly reflects such inquiry and risk. The program’s creator and host is Felicia Zamora, poet and assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati.
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Her writing’s concision, its general lack of narrative, its refusal of standard forms, its gaps and pauses are all ways of interrupting the flow of experience and, more importantly, the conventions and directives—the normative ideologies—embedded within this flow…”
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Nguyen’s fragmentary counter-narrative both addresses and eludes recent histories of Vietnam, which like all wars doesn’t end when it stops. “—Alan Gilbert on Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure in Brooklyn Rail Books