Tarot Maximus
A tarot workshop for writers: learning tarot and making poems in response to the Maximus Poems by Charles Olson
Example Curriculum
“… thank you for the gorgeous and joyful offering that was Tarot Maximus. It was exactly what I needed! I felt soothed and relieved afterward. And so...full!”
– AM
“… your workshop was the perfect deep dive to get back in and reconnect with the meanings of the cards. And, of course, the tarot-Maximus connection was perfect, and your writing prompts, as ever, highly generative.”
– KS
“… this workshop is a good reconnection with soul matters.”
– JS
Please Note:
- All sales are final. Please shop mindfully and ensure this course is right for you.
- When you register through the payment plan, you are committing to pay the full amount listed, whether you complete the course or not.
- It is your responsibility to make the most out of this experience.
- The content of this course may not be shared, reproduced or copied, or repurposed in any form. Anyone found to be sharing these materials without permission will be pursued in a court of law.
About Hoa Nguyen
Since earning an MFA from New College of California, Hoa Nguyen has written five full-length books including As Long as Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Hoa’s most recent book, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award; the winner of the Canada Book Award; and named “Best Poetry of 2021” by CBC Books, The Globe and Mail, NPR Books, Library Journal, and Entropy Magazine.
Her work has received notice from Publishers Weekly, The Poetry Foundation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and has been promoted by literary outlets such as Granta, PEN American Center, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, PBS News Hour, Pleiades, Boston Review, and Poetry Northwest.
Hoa has been invited to present, perform, and speak at festivals, literary establishments, and institutions of higher education such as Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Adelaide, the Association for Asian American Studies, Singapore Writers Festival, California College of the Arts, Toronto International Festival of Authors, and the Chautauqua Institution. A forum of critical writing dedicated to Hoa’s work appeared in Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review in 2021, and in 2019, her writing was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award often compared with the Nobel Prize in Literature.
