with Ocean Vuong — Poet & novelist
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Add to calendarA full reading with three new poems, followed by an open mic for anyone under twenty.
$18 · under-20s free
Born on a rice farm outside Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, Vuong came to fiction from poetry and writes at a famously slow pace — sometimes a handful of words in a morning. His debut novel is addressed to a mother who could not read it, a gap he treats as the engine of the book rather than its obstacle.
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WorkshopUpcomingOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous · Penguin Press, 2019
with Ocean Vuong — Poet & novelist
MacArthur Fellowship, 2019
Vuong on writing prose at the pace of poetry, and refusing to apologise for it.
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Reading & Q&AUpcomingOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous · Penguin Press, 2019
with Ocean Vuong — Poet & novelist
MacArthur Fellowship, 2019
Vuong reads the nail-salon chapter and talks about writing towards a reader you can never reach.
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