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DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts Craft Lecture Series brings distin
 guished writers to SJSU for original talks on craft. The writers are divers
 e and brilliant\, with a wide range of artistic strategies\, and each talk 
 turns into a short course on the challenges of making vital literary art.\n
 \nJoin us on Thursday\, September 29\, 2022 on Zoom at 4PM PST for a Q&A wi
 th award-winning poet Ocean Vuong. In advance of this event\, students shou
 ld be familiar with the author's recent novel\, On Earth We're Briefly Gorg
 eous and his latest poetry collection Time Is a Mother. Both titles are ava
 ilable at Spartan Bookstore and SJSU MLK Library.\n\nOcean Vuong is the aut
 hor of The New York Times bestselling poetry collection\, Time is a Mother 
 (Penguin Press 2022)\, and The New York Times bestselling novel\, On Earth 
 We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019)\, which has been translated int
 o 37 languages.  A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant\, he is als
 o the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection\, Night Sky with
  Exit Wounds\, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016\, winner of the T.S. El
 iot Prize\, the Whiting Award\, the Thom Gunn Award\, and the Forward Prize
  for Best First Collection. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation\
 , his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation\, the Civitella
  Ranieri Foundation\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, The Academy of Amer
 ican Poets\, and the Pushcart Prize.\n\nVuong's writings have been featured
  in The Atlantic\, Granta\, Harpers\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Y
 orker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, The Village Voice\, and Ame
 rican Poetry Review\, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younge
 r Poets. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global T
 hinker\, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asi
 an American Writers” and has been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered\
 ,” PBS NewsHour\, Teen Vogue\, Interview\, Poets & Writers\, and The New Yo
 rker.\n\nBorn in Saigon\, Vietnam and raised in Hartford\, Connecticut in a
  working class family of nail salon and factory laborers\, he was educated 
 at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace Universi
 ty to study International Marketing. Without completing his first term\, he
  dropped out of Business school and enrolled at Brooklyn College\, where he
  graduated with a BA in Nineteenth Century American Literature. He subseque
 ntly received his MFA in Poetry from NYU. \n\nHe currently lives in Northam
 pton\, Massachusetts and serves as a tenured Professor in the Creative Writ
 ing MFA Program at NYU.\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the genero
 us support of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies and the M
 artha Heasley Cox Lecture. This generous award\, created by San José State 
 Professor Emeritus Martha Heasley Cox\, established an ongoing series to br
 ing celebrated and influential authors to San José.\n\nFor more information
 \, please visit clasanjose.org.
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SUMMARY:CLA Craft Lecture Series: Ocean Vuong
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