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Poetry Reading by Ocean Vuong

February 16, 2017, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Location Feliciano School of Business - 015
SponsorMarie Frazee-Baldassarre ProfessorshipMore Informationhttp:/‌/‌www.oceanvuong.com/‌Posted InCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship

Ocean Vuong is a sensation: he is a a 28-year-old Vietnamese-American poet who has been praised in the New York Times and newspapers across the country, written up in The New Yorker, and given a 2016 Whiting Award while he was still a student in NYU's MFA program.

His first full-length book, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), appears on at least 12 lists of "Best Poetry of 2016."  Vuong's poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Croatian.

To learn more about him, read a write-up in the New Yorker, visit his web site, or watch this PBS video about him.