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VOCARIUM Reading: Natalie Diaz and Ocean Vuong

Courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Lecture

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

As part of the Woodberry Poetry Room’s VOCARIUM Reading series, award-winning poet Natalie Diaz (author of Postcolonial Love Poem) and poet and novelist Ocean Vuong (author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) will share readings from their recent work.

Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020) and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012). Her honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Diaz lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she has worked with the last speakers of Mojave and directed a language revitalization program.

Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019) and forthcoming in 30 languages worldwide. A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also 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. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Vuong lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he is an assistant professor in the M.F.A. Program for Poets and Writers at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Harvard Art Museums.

After the reading, a catered reception and book sale will take place at the Woodberry Poetry Room.

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.

Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.

Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.