Tarot Maximus with Poet Hoa Nguyen
A tarot course for writers.
In Tarot Maximus, you will learn about the tarot and dip into a modern epic.
Celebrated poet and creative writing teacher Hoa Nguyen will lead this instructional weekend intensive on the tarot and use tarot to select, read, and lead participants through generative writing prompts inspired by The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson.
Tarot Maximus with Hoa Nguyen: A Weekend Intensive
Two Days | Four Sessions on Zoom
When
Sat Mar 12 and Sun Mar 13
Early session
10:00am – noon Toronto time
Later session
4pm – 6:00pm Toronto time
Cost: 2 Options, 2 Currencies
Live +
Attendance to and participation in four lecture sessions, access to recordings and supplemental materials
Recordings +
Access to session recordings and supplemental materials on tarot and The Maximus Poems,
Required: The Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. Poems and other handouts provided.
Poet Hoa Nguyen has led reading-focused poetry workshops and studied tarot for more than two decades. See this interview on her workshop at the Poetry Foundation and this talk she gave for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series.
Cards and pouch that once belonged to Charles Olson. Image courtesy of Jonathan Skinner.
Hosted and sponsored by knife | fork | book, your poetry dispensary. Known as an angelic upstart from coast to coast in Canada, knife | fork | book has blossomed into one of the top must-read venues/destination for poets from all over North America with two new Toronto locations, KFB EAST at The Great Escape 957 Kingston Rd & KFB WEST at Capital Espresso 1349 Queen St W.
This tarot-based feature is a rare one: a don’t-miss.
Inquiries welcome.