LAist

Ocean Vuong's new poems examine the 'big, big yesterday' since his mother was alive

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...

Poet Ocean Vuong shares his grief in 'Time Is A Mother'

This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. Ocean Vuong's ...
The Daily Californian

Ocean Vuong at BAMPFA: Poet who leaps into the abyss comes out alive

After a few preliminary introductions by the Townsend Center on the evening of Mar. 5, Ocean Vuong steps up to the podium at BAMPFA, bespectacled and ever so demure. Clearing his throat, his lilting ...
Bay Area Reporter

Ocean Vuong's rainbow afterglow: poet returns with 'Time Is a Mother'

One true way to envision Ocean Vuong is as, if not The Survivor, a survivor. He survived being plucked out of Saigon at the age of two and hauled, in stages, to the US. Here he survived illiteracy and ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Critically acclaimed poet and novelist Ocean Vuong to speak at Liberty Hall

Poet Ocean Vuong reads a part of his book "Night sky with exit wounds" in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Critically acclaimed Vietnamese American poet and novelist Ocean Vuong will be in ...
The Brown Daily Herald

‘Agency above all’: Ocean Vuong discusses experience as queer, Vietnamese American poet

Ocean Vuong, celebrated poet and author of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” spoke about his experiences as a queer, Vietnamese American poet as part of the Greg and Julie Flynn Cogut Institute ...
Yahoo

Ocean Vuong calls out newspaper for misidentifying him with photo of different Asian man

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acclaimed Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong has called out an Italian newspaper after it printed a picture of a different Asian ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Review: Ocean Vuong takes existentialism to deeply intimate level in ‘The Emperor of Gladness’

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can keep each other company in exchange for his help as a kind of unofficial ...
The Boston Globe

Ocean Vuong, in ‘Time is a Mother,’ writes from ‘the country of grief’

New England, the setting of Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed debut novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” also helped inspire his second poetry collection, “Time Is a Mother.” Growing up in Hartford, ...
Uinterview

Italian Newspaper Prints Photo Of Different Asian Man In Article Celebrating Noted Poet Ocean Vuong

A recent print edition of La Stampa, a reputable Italian newspaper, featured a photo of a different Asian man in an article celebrating the translated edition of Ocean Vuong‘s critically acclaimed ...
WESA

In The Lines Of Ocean Vuong, Echoes Of His Family's Past In Vietnam

When he was 2 years old, Ocean Vuong's family immigrated from Vietnam to the U.S. He tells NPR's Michel Martin that he didn't learn to read English until he was 11. Now 27, he's making his mark in the ...