Hoa Nguyen
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Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the DC area, Hoa Nguyen studied Poetics at New College of California in San Francisco where she earned an MFA. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry including As Long As Trees Last, Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009) and Your Ancient See Through (Subpress, 2002). Her poetry has been collected in eight anthologies including Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009), The Best of Fence (Fence Books, 2009), For the Time Being: A Bootstrap Anthology (Bootstrap Books, 2008), Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed Editions, 2008), and Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007). With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a small press journal of poetry and poetics, publishing contemporary poets such as Amiri Baraka, Alice Notley, Linh Dinh, Kenward Elmslie and Eileen Myles. In 2002, as editor of Best American Poetry, Robert Creeley selected poems by four poets that were published in issue 6 of Skanky Possum. Nguyen has been invited to perform her work, act as poet in residence, and lecture on poetry for universities, conferences and literary organizations, including, most recently, the University of Texas, Austin, TX; Washington State University, Pullman, WA; the Charles Olson Centenary Conference, Vancouver, BC; Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY; the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Austin, TX; Naropa University, Boulder, CO; and the Belladonna Conference, New York, NY. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series.
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Reviews
The poems in Nguyen's third book of poetry are spare and often short, but present an openness that allows the reader to luxuriate in the sensory details of the everyday. —American Poet
Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from our base assumptions about how language might present the world to us. Her poems are also funny, and they strangely develop their own language games which comprise some of the most inviting lyrics I've found in a living poet. —Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Bookslut
[Hoa Nguyen's poems] impart a sense of how one might look at the various parts of a life and let them speak out without settling into simple dichotomies. —Academy of American Poets
Nguyen makes poetry that sticks in the heart and the craw, and she deserves to be widely and aggressively read... —Seth Abramson, Huffington Post
Nguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today. —Dan Shewan, The Rumpus
Reviews of books by Hoa Nguyen
As Long As Trees Last
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- Hoa Nguyen's website & blog
- Hoa Nguyen on a Fact-Simile Poet Trading Card!
Poems
- “After Sappho” (in Poets.org)
- “Swell” (in Poets.org)
- “Angel Going Pow” (on Dusie)
Interviews
- Jacket2, with Stephen McLaughlin
- Bookslut, with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
- Open Book Toronto, with Rob Mclennan
- Kirkus Reviews, with Jessa Crispin
- We Who Are About To Die, with Reb Livingston
- Evening Will Come, with Alexandra Mathieu
- Washington State Magazine, with Angela Sams
- BOMBLOG, with Iris Cushing
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- Hoa Nguyen reads “Never Seen” and “Rage Sonnet” for PBS NewsHour
- Four recorded readings at PennSound
- Listen to Hoa Nguyen interviewed with Dale Smith for Jacket2
- Reading at the Poetry Project with Jesse Seldess. Hoa Nguyen's reading starts at 17:38.
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No readings are scheduled at this time.
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As Long as Trees Last Hoa Nguyen
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By Hoa Nguyen Publication Date: September 4, 2012 ISBN#9781933517612 (5.5X8.25 88pp) Description Reviews Bio It’s...
