Poetry and Resistance: Exploring the Poetry of Ocean Vuong - w/ Vocales Verticales - In-person

Poesía y Resistencia en Español, English, y Spanglish

Join Vocales Verticales for an afternoon of poetry and ideas. How can we use poetry as a tool for resistance? Discover how others did it, and write some poems.

Ocean Vuong is the author of several poetry collections, including Night Sky With Exit Wounds, which won the T.S. Eliot prize, among other awards. Born in Saigon and raised in Connecticut, he often explores themes related to transformation, desire, and violent loss, and many discussing the enigmatic figure of his father. Find his work in the Library catalog:

https://mcpl.aspendiscovery.org/Union/Search?lookfor=ocean%20vuong

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More info about Vocales Verticales:

https://www.facebook.com/p/Vocales-Verticales

https://vocalesverticales.substack.com/

The workshop is led by Carlota Roby, a human rights attorney and co-founder of the Vocales Verticales project. She is also a poet, and has published the poetry collections Las Manos de los Muertos (2013); Suburban Tales (2019); and Lilith (2024).

The program will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room, off the lobby on the first floor. 

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

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