Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/weekly-poem-rage-sonnet Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Weekly Poem: ‘Rage Sonnet’ Arts Nov 26, 2012 3:35 PM EDT By Hoa Nguyen Rage on the grinding spot Independence Day Rag laundry day My boy wears shark pajamas Mother ran large food trays sore shoulders Lobster surf & turf It’s Independence Day 2011 We may have been poisoned by Operation Ranch Hand I am not dead yet Ezra Pound in my D.C. Charles Olson dream “It is so much harder to be a poet now.” they say to me Lack of rain and the #30 bus may run now all the way to downtown Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C., area, Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, Texas, where they lived for 14 years. The author of eight books and chapbooks, she currently lives in Toronto, where she teaches poetics in a private workshop and at Ryerson University. Wave Books published her third full-length collection of poems, “As Long As Trees Last,” in September 2012. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now
By Hoa Nguyen Rage on the grinding spot Independence Day Rag laundry day My boy wears shark pajamas Mother ran large food trays sore shoulders Lobster surf & turf It’s Independence Day 2011 We may have been poisoned by Operation Ranch Hand I am not dead yet Ezra Pound in my D.C. Charles Olson dream “It is so much harder to be a poet now.” they say to me Lack of rain and the #30 bus may run now all the way to downtown Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C., area, Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, Texas, where they lived for 14 years. The author of eight books and chapbooks, she currently lives in Toronto, where she teaches poetics in a private workshop and at Ryerson University. Wave Books published her third full-length collection of poems, “As Long As Trees Last,” in September 2012. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now