Reading and Conversation with Ocean Vuong || Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Ocean Vuong is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019), forthcoming in 30 languages. A 2019 MacArthur Fellow and 2014 Pushcart Prize recipient, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), which was among the New York Times critics’ top books of 2016 and a winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. His honors include fellowships or grants from the Academy of American Poets, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation.
FRAMING REMARKS
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and chair, Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery
INTRODUCTION
Catherine Ho ’21, AB candidate in neuroscience with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, rights, Harvard College
DISCUSSANT
Ju Yon Kim, professor of English, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
CLOSING REMARKS
Durba Mitra RI ’19, cochair of the program organizing committee, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and assistant professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Radcliffe gratefully acknowledges the Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Dean’s Leadership Fund for Academic Ventures, which is supporting this event.
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0:00 Framing Remarks
4:11 Introduction
6:54 Ocean Vuong
32:41 Conversation
59:16 Audience Q&A
1:19:21 Closing Remarks