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Hoa Nguyen
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Poet. Toronto Metropolitan University prof. Aquarius stellium navigating digital skies. Books: A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (NBA Finalist!), Violet Energy Ingots, Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008.
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Hoa Nguyen, Eileen Myles, and Renee Gladman Read
Readings

An evening of readings at Pomona College

Tuesday, Oct. 21 2025
4:30 PM
Pomona College, Crookshank Hall
Ena Thompson Room
140 W. 6th St.,
Claremont, CA

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October 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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from rehearsals: a projected image from She Who Has No Master(s)' series of photo-poems "we [/] breathe"
a projected image from the She Who Has No Master(s)' series of photo-poems from we [/] breathe
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I will miss you forever. Thank you for being ‘Our Abbot’ “one of the family/ of poets who kisses this hand, adieu. Reflects all this / polishing & cleaning, sitting down and parting/ that poor tattered veil of being/ both dead and alive in time / as a perfect gift”

Rest in Poetry, dear Alice ❤️
Notley reading from For the Ride March 14 2020 in Toronto ON at knife fork book
May 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Poem by Joanne Kyger 1996, Owl amulets given to me at different times by Joanne & Alice, image from Alice’s incredible reading in Toronto at @knifeforkbook.bsky.social the day before pandemic lockdowns, us before our reading in Durham NC where she laughed at the funny parts of my new poems ❤️
owl amulets poets Hoa Nguyen and Alice Notley Durham NC 2024 Notley and Nguyen Toronto March 14 2020 at knife fork book Poem "I Need Some Tea to Wake to Beautiful" by Joanne Kyger for Alice Notley and Philip Whalen May 1 1998
May 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Tomorrow for the the New Writing Series at the University of San Diego, Hoa Nguyen and Corina Copp read.

Wednesday February 19, 2025
Geisel Library, Seuss Room
5:00 - 6:30pm

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February 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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TAROT, CREATIVITY, AND WRITING w/ Hoa Nguyen and Liz Worth

Thurs. January 23
at Toronto Metropolitan University

More than just a poetry reading: Join us for an interactive conversation on poetry, tarot, & creativity.

JOR, 14th floor, 380 Victoria Street
4:30-6:30pm
TAROT, CREATIVITY, AND WRITING with Hoa Nguyen and Liz Worth Facilitated by Dr. Sarah Henstra at Toronto Metropolitan University More than just a poetry reading: Join Hoa Nguyen and Liz Worth for an interactive conversation on poetry, tarot, and creativity. Bring your questions and your writing curiosity! LIZ WORTH is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer. Her first book, Treat Me Like Dirt, was the first of its kind to provide an in-depth history of Southern Ontario’s first wave punk movement. Her latest poetry collection, Inside Every Dream a Raging Sea, is now available through Bookhug Press. HOA NGUYEN is a poet and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. She’s the author of six books of poetry and 2024 recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Art C.D. Wright Award in Poetry. Thursday January 23, 2025 4:30-6:30pm (event begins 5 PM) Jorgenson Hall, 14th floor, 380 Victoria Street Light refreshments, cash bar
January 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora is now ready for discounted pre-order. The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe. Published by University of California Press.

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The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe,The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora is now ready for pre-order (with a 30% discount). Bringing Vietnamese artists and writers in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities, this collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved—a condition in which they have been separated from, yet still hew to, the country that they have left behind. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen; published by University of California Press.
December 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Reading, Roundtable, Refreshments Friday, December 6 6 PM - 8 PM in Pratt Institute School of Architecture’s beautiful Higgins Hall Hosted by the Writing Department and Writer’s Forum Hoa Nguyen joins Brenda Coultas, Carla Harryman, Patricia Spears Jones and Julie Patton at Pratt Institute for a reading and roundtable in celebration of OTHER INFLUENCES: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press, 2024).
December 6, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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A reading and roundtable in celebration of OTHER INFLUENCES: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press, 2024) at Pratt Institute.

Hoa Nguyen joins Brenda Coultas, Carla Harryman, Patricia Spears Jones and Julie Patton on Dec. 6 at 6 PM in beautiful Higgins Hall.
OTHER INFLUENCES at Pratt Institute’s Writers Forum A reading and roundtable in celebration of OTHER INFLUENCES: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press, 2024) at Pratt Institute. Hoa Nguyen joins Brenda Coultas, Carla Harryman, Patricia Spears Jones and Julie Patton on Dec. 6 at 6 PM in beautiful Higgins Hall.
November 22, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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The English Department at Toronto Metropolitan University invites poets Oana Avasilichioaei and Stephen Collis to read from their new books of poetry, published by Talonbooks.

Mon, Nov18
4:30-6:30pm
Jorgenson Hall, 14th floor, 380 Victoria Street

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The English Department at Toronto Metropolitan University presents ChamberSonic and The Middle: New Canadian Poetry Monday, November 18 4:30-6:30pm Authors Oana Avasilichioaei (Montreal) and Stephen Collis (Vancouver) read from their new books of poetry, published by Talonbooks. TMU, Jorgenson Hall, 14th floor, 380 Victoria Street
November 13, 2024 at 3:52 PM