National Poetry Month
Townsend Center Presents: Ocean Vuong
in conversation with Cathy Park Hong
Avenali Lecture
Thursday, Apr 4, 2024 5:00 pm | BAMPFA
Poetry Reading
Friday, Apr 5, 2024 5:00 pm | BAMPFA
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
Presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA, co-sponsored by ARC.
Ocean Vuong, poet, MacArthur Fellow, and author of the celebrated novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, is the 2023-24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities. He will be participating in two events on campus: on Thursday April 4th, he talks with poet and Berkeley faculty member Cathy Park Hong (English) for Townsend's Avenali Lecture. On Friday April 5th, Vuong will read from his latest poetry collection, Time is a Mother, written in the aftershocks of his mother's death and in the darkest days of the pandemic.