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Beloved novelist, poet, and educator Ocean Vuong joins his friend and colleague Adrian Matejka, editor of Poetry magazine, for a hilarious, heartbreaking, and affirming conversation about the power of the sentence.
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CW: Discussion of drug addiction
PHOTO: Ocean Vuong and Adrian Matejka on stage at the Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture at the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival in May 2025.
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Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Poetry Magazine
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Federico García Lorca
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Édouard Glissant
Frantz Fanon
Claude McKay
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Kevin Young
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Live event programmed by Michael Green
Live event produced by Jesse Swanson
Live event stage managed by Danny Fender
Live event produced and mixed by Nick Broste
Production assistance by River Williams and Logan Venezia
Podcast edited and mixed by Alisa Rosenthal
Podcast story editing by Alexandra Quinn
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Beloved novelist, poet, and educator Ocean Vuong joins his friend and colleague Adrian Matejka, editor of Poetry magazine, for a hilarious, heartbreaking, and affirming conversation about the power of the sentence.
SHOW NOTES:
Read the podcast transcript.
CW: Discussion of drug addiction
PHOTO: Ocean Vuong and Adrian Matejka on stage at the Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture at the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival in May 2025.
Read:
Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Poetry Magazine
Explore:
Ben Lerner
Yusef Komunyakaa
Sharon Olds
Djuna Barnes, Knightwood
Lyn Hejinian
Bernadette Mayer
Bhanu Kapil
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's, Dictée
Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
Phillis Wheatley
Jupiter Hammon
Harriet Jacobs
Annie Dillard
César Vallejo
André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
Federico García Lorca
Gabriel García Márquez
Édouard Glissant
Frantz Fanon
Claude McKay
John Keats
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Kevin Young
Jeff Van Gundy
Live event programmed by Michael Green
Live event produced by Jesse Swanson
Live event stage managed by Danny Fender
Live event produced and mixed by Nick Broste
Production assistance by River Williams and Logan Venezia
Podcast edited and mixed by Alisa Rosenthal
Podcast story editing by Alexandra Quinn
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