Reviews
I come back to Hoa Nguyen’s poems all the time and every single time I find a new world of meaning.
—Gabrielle Calvocoressi, PEN America

Nguyen’s commitment to writing the everyday, the (auto)biographical, the political, and the environmental, often in complex constellations, has given us a suite of collections and chapbooks of singular voice. She operates within a lyric mode that moves fluidly across confession, playful linguistic experiment, and collage, with political investment often in view.
—Patrick Flanery, Chicago Review

Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from our base assumptions about how language might present the world to us. Her poems are also funny, and they strangely develop their own language games which comprise some of the most inviting lyrics I've found in a living poet.
—Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Bookslut

[Hoa Nguyen's poems] impart a sense of how one might look at the various parts of a life and let them speak out without settling into simple dichotomies.
—American Poets

Nguyen makes poetry that sticks in the heart and the craw, and she deserves to be widely and aggressively read...
—Seth Abramson, Huffington Post

Nguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today.
—Dan Shewan, The Rumpus

Reviews of books by Hoa Nguyen

A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

Violet Energy Ingots

Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008

As Long As Trees Last

- Hoa Nguyen's website & blog
- Nguyen on a Fact-Simile Poet Trading Card!
- Profile of Nguyen by Amy Carlberg

Poems
-Two poems from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (in the Brooklyn Rail)
-Essay on the poetic process and revision, including two poem drafts from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (in Underbelly)
-Two poems (in Saigoneer)
-Two poems (in The Puritan)
-Four Poems (in The Brooklyn Rail)
-“Ficus Carica Sonnet” (in Academy of American Poets)
-“Narrative Poem…” (in Carte Blanc)
-“Cold Sore Lip Red Coat” (in PoetryNow)
- "Dang You Then a Dang" (in Poetry)
- “Strummer” (in Talisman)
- Two poems (in Granta)
- Several poems (on Poets.org)
- “How The Sun Shivers” (in The Rusty Toque)
- “For the Pisces Full Moon” (in Summer Stock)
- “Angel Going Pow” (on Dusie)
- Two poems (on Pen America)
- Three poems (in Eleven Eleven Journal)
- “Unused Baby” (on The Poetry Foundation)
- Three poems (in the Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Five poems (in The Brooklyn Rail)
- Four poems from Red Juice (in tender)
- “Do I Plunge” (on Lit Hub)

Interviews
- The Walrus, with Michael Prior
- Jacket2, with Stephen McLaughlin
- Bookslut, with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
- Open Book Toronto, with James Lindsay
- Kirkus Reviews, with Jessa Crispin
- Poetry and Pho: Hoa Nguyen shares Lyricism and a Recipe, with Paul Maziar
- Evening Will Come, with Alexandra Mathieu
- Washington State Magazine, with Angela Sams
- BOMBLOG, with Iris Cushing
- Gesture, with Brenna Lee
- The Public, with Keven Thurston
- Traces: Hoa Nguyen, with Project 40 Collective

Audio
- Reading in response to works by Miho Dohi for the Renaissance Society
- Reading "Cold Sore Lip Red Coat" for PoetryNow at the Poetry Foundation
- Lecture “Living Room” for the Bagley Wright lecture series on teaching creative writing
- Reading “No Sleep” for PBS NewsHour
- Reading “They Sell You What Disappears” for PBS NewsHour
- Reading “Never Seen” and “Rage Sonnet” for PBS NewsHour
- Four readings at PennSound
- Interviewed with Dale Smith for Jacket2

Video
- Reading at the Poetry Project with Jesse Seldess:


Hoa Nguyen reads from her work at Counterpath: