No Surprises, a Reading with Joshua Nguyen & Monica Davidson
Fri, Apr 09
|Zoom
Please join us for a night of epic readings and an Open Mic! This event is to give you a sneak peek at some of our upcoming workshop leaders. Sign up for our OPEN MIC by hitting RSVP or copying this link: https://forms.gle/x3cc81VnyfNKePqQ9
Time & Location
Apr 09, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Zoom
About the event
This event is promoting our upcoming workshop:
Workshop Title: No Surprise In The Writer, No Surprise In The Reader
Workshop Description: In this generative workshop, participants will ruminate on what surprises them in writing (others' and their own). It will be a workshop on what to do when confronted with a poem that has grown stale, what to do when a collection of poems doesn't excite the writer anymore, and how to create turns that turn heads (including your own head).
Joshua Nguyen is a bisexual Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He is the author of the chapbook, "American Lục Bát for My Mother" (forthcoming, 2021), published by Bull City Press, and has received fellowships from Kundiman, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has been published in The Offing, Wildness, American Poetry Review, Defunkt, The…