Articles - February 2023

Rhetorical happenings (PoemTalk #181)

Hoa Nguyen, 'Long Light'

From left: Bethany Swann, Jonathan Dick, Kate Colby.

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Al Filreis convened Bethany Swann, Jonathan Dick, and Kate Colby to talk about a poem by Hoa Nguyen titled “Long Light.” The poem has been collected in Red Juice: Poems, 1998–2008 (150), published by Wave Books. Our recording of the poem comes from Hoa’s PennSound author page. The recording we used is from a reading presented as part of the St. Bonaveture Visiting Poets Series, on March 22, 2016.