Ocean Vuong, Gay Poet and Former Refugee, Named 2019 MacArthur Fellow

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Elt Prize for his 2016 llectn of poetry, Night Sky wh Ex Wounds, about astrology, Pri, and wrg about gay As someone who intifi as “very Libra, ” why do you thk astrology has bee so popular wh the queer muny? I'm wonrg if you had any guis through the procs, particularly as pertas to wrg about gay sex? It's so faiar to gay timacy and yet rarely acknowledged, particularly lerature.

What pelled you to wre about the unrbelly of gay sex?

QUI T OCEAN VUONG, LE NOUVE PRODIGE LA LTéRATURE GAY AMéRIE ?

You’re gay pl you get to wre about war and stuff, ” whed a whe stunt his creative wrg class, reunted one of the new poems. Part tofictn, part epistolary novel, part prose poem, On Earth We’re Briefly Geo is Vuong’s attempt to wre the Amerin g-of-age story as a gay refugee.

He says his words are shaped by his experience growg up across a number of inti: immigrant, Asian Amerin, gay and raised by a sgle mother. "Vuong startg walkg that road when he was 18 years old and about to travel to New York Cy for bs school, but first me out as gay to his mother. Vuong relled that he didn't have any visible gay role mols growg up as an only child and a Vietname Amerin immigrant Hartford.

"I wanted to have a route to llege se I wasn't accepted (as a gay man), " he Vuong told his mother, who raised him as a sgle parent, that they need to have an important talk, her first ncern was whether he had gotten someone pregnant.

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Ocean Vuong, Gay Poet and Former Refugee, Named 2019 MacArthur Fellow .

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