Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Hoa Nguyen studied Poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, TX, their home of 14 years. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and As Long as Trees Last. She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she curates a reading series and teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University.
AUTUMN 2012 POEM DEAR LOVE NOT AS A SLAVE, MEKONG I HAUNTED SONNET A BRIEF HISTORY OF WAR HEADLESS OR HEAD WHO WAS ANDREW JACKSON? A SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH POEM SCREAMING BIRTHDAY POEM PHARAOH NOTES WEEK OF WORDS HOW THE SUN SHIVERS AFTER SONNET 117 POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM JACK SPICER POEMS STRUMMER MEANT TO SOME, VISITING JANUARY THREAD CORD HAWK CHASED BY BLACKBIRDS TOWER SONNET MACHIAVELLI NOTES DIANA WAS THE MOON BLOUSY GUITAR DIGRESSIVE PARENTHESIS I DIDN
T KNOW PS: FIRST FLOWERS THE WHITEBOARD ORPHEUS POEM LOCUST TREE NOTES (EAST TORONTO) MY GREEN I AM TOO EAT VIOLETS ANGEL GOING POW MOAN & LOW SHE SAILS (SPRING) POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM TAGORE POEMS HID DO I PLUNGE SUNFLOWER GUARDIANS SPARROW AGAIN BLOODLANDS ARTIFACTS FROM THE
UNEARTHLY CAVE
NAMED
THE PLACE WHERE THE MAN WAS KILLED BY THE BULL
AFTER THE MURDER BALLAD TO SEEK EVE COPPER DREAM IN OCTOBER ME THAT THE DIFFERENCE IS VELOCITY FOR LOVE RED RED VOICE OWL TORN YOU SONNET FOR MIMIR
S HEAD AFTER THE SONG AND LEAVE
