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 ...

Ocean Vuong compared the publishing of his work to sending a raft down a river: He has to be willing to let go and accept unknown results. “If you’re on the raft, you can’t make anything,” he said.

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

I remember finding a signed copy of the poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” by Ocean Vuong at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. Usually, signed books are a sign that the author has a special ...

This past Thursday Oct. 26, Edwards Church in Northampton hosted a captivating conversation between two poets, Sally Wen Mao and Ocean Vuong. The discussion encompassed a wide range of themes from ...

like a miniature moon behind her hair. In this version the snake is headless – stilled like a cord unraveled from the lovers’ ankles. the earth with red hooves. & I am your son. Contributor’s Note: ...

Editor's note: This interview is a compilation of an in-studio conversation and a live event. Novelist Ocean Vuong is one of the most celebrated authors of his generation. He's won a MacArthur "Genius ...