April 29, 2026 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations with Hoa Nguyen and Rebecca Mangra
Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series.
On April 29, Cross-Pollinations will present "Ghost-Tending & the Grammar of the Future-Past", readings and conversation on healing rupture, communing with the past, and dialoguing across time.
Featuring Hoa Nguyen and Rebecca Mangra, this event has been curated by Mic Jones.
April 29, 2026
3pm PT/6pm ET
Hosted and curated by Mic Jones
Hoa Nguyen
Hoa Nguyen is a poet and professor of creative writing, poetry, and poetics at Toronto Metropolitan University and the author of six acclaimed poetry collections, including Red Juice, Violet Energy Ingots, and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure. As an integral member of She Who Has No Master(s), a collective project of hybrid poetics, she co-curates and contributes to multimedia, multi-voiced poetry works, most recently at Mass MoCA, Moving Poets Berlin, and the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. She’s the 2024 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, a January Aquarius, and a Fire Horse.
Rebecca Mangra
Rebecca Mangra is a Guyanese-Canadian writer and editor. She is the recipient of the 2017 President’s Prize for Short Fiction and the 2018 Babs Burggraf Award for Creative Writing. She is currently a graduate student in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Literatures of Modernity program. Her fiction, poetry, personal essays, interviews, and other critical writing have been featured in ELLE Canada, Room Magazine, The Malahat Review, This Magazine, and other places. She is currently working on her first novel.
Recordings from past events can be viewed on YouTube.
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