[Rohnert Park, CA 94928]

Hoa Nguyen
March 8, 2016, 7:00 pm
at Sonoma State

reading at Sonoma State with Joanne Kyger. HOA NGUYEN is the author of AS LONG AS TREES LAST and RED JUICE, POEMS 1998-2008 with Wave Books. In 2015, Ugly Duckling Presse released Nguyen’s chapbook TELLS OF THE CRACKLING and Wave Books will bring out her book VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS in the fall of 2016. She teaches at Ryerson University’s Chang School, for Miami University’s low residency MFA program, in the Milton Avery School for Fine Arts at Bard College, and in a long-running, private poetics workshop. JOANNE KYGER, often associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, now lives in a small coastal town north of San Francisco. She is the author of over 30 books of poetry. Her most recent are ON TIME, City Lights Press 2015, and THE JAPAN AND INDIA JOURNALS 1960-64, Nightboat Books 2015. more info here