Ocean Vuong, bestselling author and poet, with Kat Chow

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From Ocean Vuong, the author of the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and critically-acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, comes Time Is a Mother, a deeply intimate poetry collection that finds Vuong searching for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death. In conversation with Kat Chow, a reporter, writer, and author of the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir. Chow was a founding member of NPR’s Code Switch team and podcast.

This program was held on April 7 in partnership with Politics and Prose.