Anyone who sails blue water, lives near the seashore, or loves the crash of heavy surf meeting shoreline is in for a literary treat this spring, with the March 2013 release of Spinner Publications’ ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...

In the poem, he writes, When I stood on a rock, a particle of sunshine/Or the sound of a waterdrop, fell into my palm/Extending and flowing into the infinite, as if what I held/Was not merely purity ...

Ocean Vuong is the author of "Night Sky With Exit Wounds" (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). He lives in Queens, N.Y. The Academy of American Poets is a nonprofit, mission-driven organization, whose aim is ...

"Time Is a Mother" is Ocean Vuong's second collection of poems being released this week. A winner of major literary prizes and a MacArthur Fellowship, Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of ...

An electronic screen highlights the Shenzhen Ocean Poetry Season 2022 program on a bus in Shenzhen.[Photo provided to China Daily] "While developing the marine economy, we have been thinking about the ...