[Annandale-on-Hudson, NY]

A Reading by Hoa Nguyen and Dawn Lundy Martin
April 19, 2018, 7:00 pm
at Bard College

Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (2007), winner of the Cave Canem Prize; DISCIPLINE (2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and several chapbooks. Her 2015 collection Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Her latest collection, Good Stock, Strange Blood, was published by Coffee House Press in 2017. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C., area, Hoa Nguyen lives in Toronto, where she teaches poetics in several university settings and in a popular, long-running private workshop. Her recent books include As Long as Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998–2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, nominated for a 2017 Griffin Prize for poetry. This event will be held in the László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building. This reading is part of a series that will honor the memory of John Ashbery. Introduced by Ann Lauterbach, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. More info here.