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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Congrats to Ocean

One of my favorite new poets, Ocean Vuong, has won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets, through the American Poetry Review. Yay for Ocean!!!

Read an interview of Ocean with poet Mari L'Esperance here. And listen to one with Rachel Cruz here.

5 comments:

Mari said...

Yay, Ocean!!!!! So much deserved...

Mamun said...

Nice post

playwright and poet

Jessica Goodfellow said...

Mari and Mamum,
Ocean really deserves this recogniztion. Yay for when good things happen to talented people.

Mari said...

Ocean is not only talented, but a good person to boot. A winning combination.

Jessica Goodfellow said...

Isn't is great when those two qualities come together? Yay for Ocean again!