Ocean Vuong

There are as many ways to excite in poetry as there are words. No subject is wrong and no syntax is sin. I am drawn to poems that risk their own collpase in the hopes of asking the difficult, deeper question. Poems where the only hero is language itself.

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Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). A 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, he has received honors from The Academy of American Poets, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Poets House, and a 2014 Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in Best New Poets, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. He lives in New York City.