In this Fine Arts Work Center event in Provincetown, Massachusetts, poet Hieu Minh Nguyen, writer Lydi Conklin, and photographer Ron Amato present their respective works. Nguyen reads a selection of poems from his third collection, Staying Still (Tin House, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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