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Say Yr Impossible with Hoa Nguyen Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive)


Led by: Hoa Nguyen, poet

Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street @ Mohawk, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: March 15, 2018
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Language has long been associated with alchemists, tricksters, and figures that have the ability to move between realms. In this fast fun writing lab, we will make use of language alchemy with forms of word bending and sound/sense experiments.

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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 for 14 years. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and As Long As Trees Last. She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University, Bard College, and Miami University.

This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 12 participants.

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