Hoa Nguyen
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Hoa Nguyen (Vĩnh Long, 1967) is an American poet.
Born near Saigon, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington D.C. area and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco. She now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
With her husband Dale Smith, Nguyen edited ten issues of Skanky Possum Magazine, and under this imprint, published books and chapbooks by Kristin Prevallet, Tom Clark, Frank O'Hara, and others. Together they host a reading series presenting performances by Pierre Joris, Linh Dinh, Susan Briante, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Kate Greenstreet, Laynie Browne, Anselm Berrigan, and others. Since 1998, she has led a popular virtual and in-person writing workshop focusing on the works of poets such as Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, Joanne Kyger, Philip Whalen, Charles Olson, Emily Dickinson, and Gertrude Stein. She currently teaches poetics at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009), The Best of Fence (Fence Books, 2009), For the Time Being: A Bootstrap Anthology (Bootstrap Books, 2008), and in An Anthology of New (American) Poets, Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed Editions, 2008) (Talisman House, 1998). She is the author of Dark (1998), Parrot Drum (Leroy, 2000), Your Ancient See Through (Sub Press, 2002) and Red Juice (Effing, 2005), Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009), as well as many online publications. Nguyen is frequently asked to give readings, act as poet in residence, and lecture on poetry for organizations across the country.
An example of her more notable work is MEAN SUDDENLY BITCH WOMAN, sampled here in an interview with poet Carol Mirakove, praised for its subtle attack on man's virtue in a soulless society.
Her most recent full-length collection, As Long As Trees Last, was published by Wave Books in September, 2012.
Bibliography
Full-length Collections
- As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books, 2012)
- Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009)
- Your Ancient See Through (Subpress, 2002)
Chapbooks and Booklets
- Tells of the Crackling (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)
- Late in the Month (Country Valley Press, 2011)
- Chinaberry (Fact-Simile, 2010)
- Kiss a Bomb Tattoo (Effing Press, 2009)
- What Have You (Longhouse Poetry, 2008)
- Poems (Dos Press Chaps, 2007)
- Six Poems (Tolling Elves, 2005)
- Red Juice (Effing Press, 2005)
- Add Some Blue (Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, 2004)
- Let's Eat Red for Fun (Booglet, 2000)
- Parrot Drum (Leroy Press, 2000)
- Dark (Mike and Dale's Press, 1998)
References
External links
Author Pages
Selected Online Publications
- Six poems by Hoa Nguyen at Readme
- Ten poems by Hoa Nguyen at Duration Press
- Nine poems by Hoa Nguyen at The East Village Poetry Web
- "Horse Herb", a poem at Fence Magazine
- "Of Mercury", a poem from Love Thy Poet Postcard Series
- Seven poems translated into Vietnamese by Linh Dinh
Reviews
- The Volta reviews As Long As Trees Last for the Friday Feature
- Flying Object review of As Long As Trees Last
- As Long As Trees Last review on Lemon Hound
- As Long As Trees Last among Books Noted at the Academy of American Poets
- The Rumpus review of As Long As Trees Last
- As Long As Trees Last in Seth Abramson's review of notable contemporary poetry
- As Long As Trees Last reviewed in the Boston Globe
- Nguyen's Hecate Lochia reviewed by Steven Sohn on Gently Read
- Two of Nguyen's books reviewed by John Latta on Isola di Rifiuti
- Hecate Lochia in review on The Academy of American Poets
- Hoa Nguyen's Red Juice reviewed by Sueyeun Juliette Lee at Galatea Resurrects
- Red Ruice reviewed by Nikki Widner at Verse
Interviews
- With Iris Cushing [1] at BOMBLOG
- With Jessa Crispin [2] on Kirkus Books
- Andy Fitch interviews Hoa Nguyen for The Conversant
- Evening Will Come interview by Mathieu, Kunsang, and Melo-Moore
- In conversation with Reb Livingston on We Who Are About to Die
- Hoa Nguyen interviewed by Carol Mirakove
- Hoa Nguyen interviewed on Bookslut by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
- Introduction to a reading by Hoa Nguyen at the Kelly Writers House, September 19, 2002
Media
- Poem of the Day selected by the Academy of American Poets
- Hoa Nguyen with Dale Smith on The Conversant
- Rage Sonnet on PBS News Hour
- Never Seen on PBS News Hour
- Reading for the Poetry Project with Jesse Seldess in 2011 - Nguyen beginning at 17:37.
- Reading at the Unassociated Garden Party in Austin, TX