An evening with Hoa Nguyen, Dale Martin Smith, Aaron Lowinger, and David Hadbawnik

An evening with Hoa Nguyen, Dale Martin Smith, Aaron Lowinger, and David Hadbawnik
at Fitz Books and Waffles new location 1462 Main St.7pm Thursday, April 17, 2025

Free and open to the public.

Born in the lower Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington DC area, Hoa Nguyen is a poet and educator teaching creative writing and poetics at Toronto Metropolitan University. The author of six books of poetry, her titles include Red Juice: Poems 1998 – 2008, Violet Energy Ingots and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure from Wave books. 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.

A poet and literary scholar, Dale Martin Smith was born in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of the full-length poetry collections The Size of Paradise (KFB, 2024), Flying Red Horse (Talonbooks, 2021), and Slow Poetry in America (Cuneiform, 2014). Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (2012) and two edited editions, An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson (both 2017). Recent writing focuses on Canadian-American poet Norma Cole and can be found in That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making (2025). He joined the faculty of English at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2011.

Aaron Lowinger is a writer from Buffalo who has worked between poetry and journalism. A former editor for the alt-weekly newspaper The Public (2014-2019, RIP), Lowinger’s work has been published by City and State, The Challenger, BlazeVox, Boog City, Kadar Koli, among many others, including a succession of chapbooks under the House Press imprimatur. Lowinger co-hosted Just Buffalo Literary Center’s poetry and performance series BIG NIGHT for five years.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, David Hadbawnik is a poet, translator, and medieval scholar who completed his studies in the UB Poetics Program in 2015. Books include a translation of the Aeneid (Shearsman, 2023); an edited volume, Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms (Medieval Institute Publications, 2022); and Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems (Delete Press, 2018). His most recent book of poetry, Accidentals, is forthcoming from Subpress. He currently lives in the Minneapolis area with his wife and family.