Ocean Vuong's second poetry collection, Time Is a Mother, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Now, it's been shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Some prefer their summer reads breezy and ephemeral while others seize the moment, sitting with texts they want to explore in ...

Ocean Vuong’s newest novel 'Emperor of Gladness' reminds us that human connection is the greatest universal truth.

On the cover of his debut poetry collection, “Night Sky with Exit Wounds,” is a photograph of Ocean as a child, alongside his mother and aunt. Ocean’s name and the collection’s title obscure their ...

Poet Ocean Vuong discusses his second poetry collection "Time Is a Mother," the power of embracing grief and humor, what time has given him and more. Skip to content. Local News.

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has been dubbed ‘one of our most gifted poets’. Ocean Vuong came to the public’s attention when his 2016 poetry collection Night Sky With Exit ...

Favorite poem: “[The famous poets came for us]” Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong This is only my second article for the site and it, too, features Ocean Vuong!

Novelist Ocean Vuong is one of the most celebrated authors of his generation ... On the worst days, I go into the class and they're watching the poem come together in the brief 10, 20 minutes we have ...

Hailed by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers,” Ocean Vuong is a biographer of violence, dislocation, and an immigrant, queer America that carries trauma from other lands, ...