Date/Time
Date(s) - February 19, 2026
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Hoa Nguyen and Dale Martin Smith
LSC University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 19, 2026
Hoa Nguyen is a poet and educator teaching writing and poetics at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her books include Red Juice, the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots, and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, a finalist for the National Book Award and the General Governor’s Literary Award. She’s the 2024 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, an Aquarius, and a Fire Horse.
Dale Martin Smith is a poet and literary scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of many poetry collections, most recently The Size of Paradise and Flying Red Horse. Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 and several edited editions, including An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making. His writing has appeared in Poetry, LA Review of Books, Boston Review, and Lana Turner. With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, from 1998-2004. In 2025, he was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support.