The Gift, Ocean Vuong

Have you ever stopped to wonder, what if PoeTRY were hosted by someone who knew something about poetry? We're gonna find out! We're reading Ocean Vuong's "The Gift," from the 2016 collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. We are joined this week by the incomparable, Jodi, who shames Yuki and Koya with her ability to lead discussions on poetry. On earth we're briefly obsessed with Ocean Vuong because it's another episode of PoeTRY!

Read the poem here.

Ocean Vuong's biography was compiled from:

The Guardian

The Well and Often Reader

Poetry Foundation

Time Magazine

The Brooklyn College website