TMU English Professor, Hoa Nguyen in Montreal for ModPo Events

In September, Hoa Nguyen joined faculty from the University of Pennsylvania to contribute to the development of educational content on Modern and Contemporary U.S. and Canadian Poetry. Staged at McGill University over the course of several days, this series of recorded live webcasts and panel discussions contributed to the free and publicly accessible online course "ModPo" (Modern and Contemporary Poetry), a course that has been offered to thousands of participants worldwide for the last decade. The course content included readings of poems alongside informal video discussions featuring poets and scholars analyzing and contextualizing those works. Work from Hoa's book A Thousand Times You Lost Your Treasure was featured as part of this consideration.

Beginning in October 2024, at the behest of the Poetry Society of America, Hoa created and facilitated the online series “Breaking Boundaries-- Experimental Poetry of the Unsilent Generation: A Generative Crash Course” for an audience of writers based in Canada, the United States, and England. Designed as a five-week excursion into the innovative work of  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Wanda Coleman, Alice Notley, Cecilia Vicuña, and Anne Waldman, Hoa led writers in reflections and conversations on the poetics and possibilities of these five women poets born on the cusp of societal shifts (1945-1948) in a discussion on how they defied expectations, experimented with form, and challenged conventions. 

Also in October, at the invitation of Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University Library, Hoa joined Carla Harryman, Erica Hunt, Tracie Morris, Prageeta Sharma and Anne Tardos to mark the publication of OTHER INFLUENCES: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press, 2024). This collection of essays to which she contributed frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- and twenty-first-century North American poetry. In December, building upon the momentum generated by the launch at Harvard, Hoa joined poets Brenda Coultas, Carla Harryman, Patricia Spears Jones and Julie Patton at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY on for a reading and roundtable. This event took place in person and on livestream.