Worlds Lost and Found: On the Poetics of Hoa Nguyen
Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War. Featuring an editorial by Y-Dang Troeung and a special forum on the Poetics of Hoa Nguyen, “Worlds Lost and Found”. Canadian Literature #246.
Hoa Nguyen reads two poems
Hoa Nguyen, 2021 Poetry Nat. Book Award Finalist, reads from A THOUSAND TIMES YOU LOSE YOUR TREASURE
“A running leap at the song”
"Nguyen fuses the wide array of voices inhabiting the poems to offer them a sense of rootedness, embodied being and choral harmony at home in the confluent waters of language."
“Forms of attention and assembly”: A Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
“I was interested in non linearity and a-chronistic time: time as a process, and time folding over onto itself, obscuring and revealing… “
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Nguyen’s fragmentary counter-narrative both addresses and eludes recent histories of Vietnam, which like all wars doesn’t end when it stops. “—Alan Gilbert on Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure in Brooklyn Rail Books
Poetry Reading: Lee Ann Brown and Hoa Nguyen
Miami University's Low Residency Creative Writing MFA program welcomes visiting poet Lee Ann Brown and Miami faculty poet Hoa Nguyen to read on July 30 in Irvin Hall, Room 40. Free and open to the public.