A Winter Writing Workshop with poet HOA NGUYEN
“Verse, prose, verse-prose: multi-referential yet playful. It is a book of poetics as poem as reality-expanding creative possibility. In a sequence written across books and forty years, MHT is a poetics of process—as opposed to a poetics of knowledge—that directs our attention to the play of reality and time, as being led by words to where “the wickerwack of wonder prevails”.
— Hoa Nguyen on Fred Wah’s Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks 2020
READING WAH's MUSIC AT THE HEART OF THINKING
Sunday January 31, 2021
4 PM to 6:30 PM ET
Hosted by k f b
With Saturn and the Sun in Aquarius, we offer you an event of creative continuance and chance to innovate, respond, and engage in writing as a relational form of listening. Led by legendary poetics teacher HOA NGUYEN on the eve of cross quarter day, a celestial marking in the northern hemisphere known for its association with divination and poetry. Support KFB and join poet Hoa Nguyen in a two-hour workshop to read and write with Fred Wah’s Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks, 2020).
Hoa has generously gifted her instruction here in direct support to benefit KFB!
The cost of the workshop include a pre-order of Hoa's upcoming Wave release, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, shipping, administration, and handling. Required text: Music at the Heart of Thinking by Fred Wah (Talonbooks, 2020), the purchase of which may be covered by the entry price or secured elsewhere—see options below.
Option 1 January Workshop includes 2 books
$88 CAD includes the 2-hr workshop plus two books
Music at the Heart of Thinking by Fred Wah
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen (pre-order)
NOTE: Given the current postal situation, we cannot guarantee the Fred Wah book will arrive before the workshop date [in particular, US/International participants]. However, materials will be read and screen shared at the workshop event. Thank you.
Option 2 January Workshop includes 1 book
$77 CAD includes the 2-hr workshop plus
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen (pre-order)
Offer expires Jan. 31 at noon Toronto time
12 NEW SPACES HAVE BEEN RELEASED. DO NOT DELAY.
ALL proceeds after costs go directly to benefit Canada’s indispensable poetry dispensary, knife fork book.
HOA NGUYEN is the author of several books of poetry, including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and has performed and lectured at numerous institutions, including Princeton University, Bard College, Poet’s House, and the Banff Centre’s Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour, Granta, The Walrus, New York Times, and Poetry, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011.