Reading and Writing through Hoa Nguyen

Workshop

In this workshop, facilitator Zoe Tuck will apply Hoa Nguyen's long-running series of workshops to her own oeuvre. As a group, the workshop will be reading Nguyen’s work and digging into the SPT archive to engage the context in which it first appeared: lit mags and chapbooks of the '90s and early '00s.

Each class will involve discussion of Nguyen’s work and generative writing exercises. These exercises may include drawing details from daily life, the domestic, local ecology, or spirituality, and using techniques like imitation, translation, found language, divinatory tools (I-Ching, tarot), collage, and Oulipian procedures. Hoa Nguyen herself will join the workshop for its final session.

As a joint project of Small Press Traffic and the Belladonna* School for Feminist Practice and Poetics, this class will culminate in a zoom reading and publication in the seednotes chaplets series.

This virtual class will meet every other Sunday, starting October 27th and then convening on November 10th, November 24th, and December 8th. It's offered at tiered rates with a sliding cost between $80 - $200.

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REGISTER

WHEN

Oct. 27, Nov. 10, Nov. 24, Dec. 8 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT

Sunday, October 27, 2024

1:00 pm

WHERE

Online: Register for zoom link

NOTES ON ACCESsIBILITY

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Zoe Tuck

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Western Massachusetts, where she co-hosts the But Also reading series with her partner, Britt Billmeyer-Finn. She is the author of Bedroom Vowel (BUNNY Presse, 2023) and Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014), as well as the chapbooks The Book of Bella (Doublecross Press), bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's Peach Woman, and Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna* Collaborative). A member of Belladonna* Collaborative and Futurepoem, she also co-edits Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown. She teaches creative writing and literature classes through Threshold Academy and elsewhere. Find out more about her reading and people-weaving at zoetuck.substack.com.

Hoa Nguyen

Born in the lower Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington DC area, Hoa Nguyen is a poet and educator teaching writing and poetics at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the collective She Who Has No Masters, a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces, and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora.. Her books include Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 and the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots. Her latest, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor’s Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Hoa is the 2024 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, an Aquarius, and a Fire Horse.