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Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010Buffalo State Welcomes Poet Hoa Nguyen
Buffalo State College is pleased to welcome poet Hoa Nguyen to campus on Friday, February 26, at 1:00 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 313 for a reading and discussion of her work. The event is free and open to the public.
Nguyen was born in Vinh Long, Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), and grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. She earned an M.F.A. in poetics from New College of California in San Francisco. She has written seven books and chapbooks, most recently Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009) and Kiss a Bomb Tattoo (Effing Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Black Dog Black Night (Milkweed, 2007) and Best of Fence (Fence Books, 2009).
Nguyen is coeditor of the small press and poetry journalSkanky Possum, from which Robert Creeley selected poems for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2002. Now living in Austin, Texas, she curates a reading series and leads a creative writing workshop. The University of Iowa Press will publish an essay by Nguyen in the forthcoming anthology Poets on Teaching.
This event is sponsored by the Buffalo State College English Department, Just Buffalo Literary Center, and the Buffalo State College Auxiliary Services Grant Allocation Committee. Nguyen will also speak to Dr. Gregg Biglieri’s Introduction to Poetry class at noon in Ketchum Hall 315.
