[Boulder]

Hoa Nguyen
February 8, 2016, 7:30 pm
at Naropa University

reading and giving a lecture at Naropa University as the Allen Ginsberg Visiting Fellow. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Hoa Nguyen studied Poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, TX, their home of 14 years. 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). Wave Books released a volume of her early uncollected poems, Red Juice, Poems 1998-2008 in the fall of 2014. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario where she teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University. more info here