A Conversation with Ocean Vuong

172 Meeting Street,Providence RI 02912

16 February, 2023

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Join us for a presentation and conversation featuring author Ocean Vuong with Brown University professor Daniel Y. Kim. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Ticket holders must arrive before 3:50 pm to claim their seats. Any reserved seats not claimed by 3:50 pm will be released to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. FEATURED SPEAKER Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling poetry collection Time Is a Mother (Penguin, 2022) and The New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019), which has been translated into 37 languages. A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016 and winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His honors include a Ruth Lilly fellowship from the Poetry Foundation; fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets; and the Pushcart Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, in a working class family of nail salon and factory laborers, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study International Marketing. Without completing his first term, he dropped out of business school and enrolled at Brooklyn college, where he graduated with a BA in 19th-century American literature. He subsequently received his MFA in poetry from NYU. He currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and serves as a tenured professor in the creative writing MFA program at NYU. For more information about the speaker, please visit prhspeakers.com. CONVERSATION MODERATOR Daniel Y. Kim is Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University. He is author of The Intimacies of Conflict: A Cultural History of the Korean War (NYU Press, 2020) and Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity (Stanford University Press, 2005). He is the co-editor (with Crystal Parikh) of The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Free and open to the public. For questions or to request special services, accommodations, or assistance, please contact [email protected] or (401) 863-6070. This event is a part of the Greg and Julie Flynn Cogut Institute Speaker Series, which brings high-profile speakers in the humanities to the Brown University campus. Each visit includes a public lecture and a separate seminar-style meeting with undergraduate students.