Reading December 4: UMaine New Writing Series
The UMaine New Writing Series presents a reading by poets Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen on Thursday, December 4, at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space in 104 Stewart Commons. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. It is free and open to the public.
Hoa Nguyen is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks, including Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 (Wave) and As Long As Trees Last (Wave). She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series.
Dale Smith is the author of the recently published book of poetry, Slow Poetry in America (Cuneiform); and a book of scholarship, Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (Alabama). He is on the faculty of the department of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. Between 1998-2003, Nguyen and Smith edited the Austin-based independent poetry magazine and press
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