Today's poem is
"Of Thee I Sing"
from Gulf Coast
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Today's poem is
"Of Thee I Sing"
from Gulf Coast
Ocean Vuong
is the author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). A 2014 Ruth
Lilly fellow, he has received honors from Kundiman, Poets House, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation,
The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and a 2014 Pushcart Prize. His
poems appear in the New Yorker, Poetry, 1he Nation, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tri Quarterly, Best
New Poets 2014, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for
Younger Poets. He lives in New York City.
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About Gulf Coast:
November 6, 2011: "In Defense of Poverty" "We lost our way in that forgotten city...."
Three poems
"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong"
Three poems
"Tell Me Something Good"
"Ode to Masturbation"
Two poems
Three poems
"In Defense of Dancing"
"Song on the Subway"
"Home Wrecker"
"Prayer for the Newly Damned"
"Despite Everything, My Dancers"
Four poems
"Torso of Air"
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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art *
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University of Houston *
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Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
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September 8, 2014: "Spontaneous Human Combustion" by Erica Wright
May 10, 2013: "animal, vegetable, mineral" by Marty McConnell
May 9, 2013: "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise" by Mary Biddinger
August 23, 2012: "Brown Refrigerator" by Rick Barot
August 18, 2012: "Dumb Girl" by Lissa Cattrone
August 15, 2012: "From 'Elegy in X Parts'" by Matt Rasmussen
August 14, 2012: "Wright Park" by Rick Barot
August 13, 2012: Two poems by Simone Muench
December 21, 2011: "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney
December 20, 2011: "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom
December 19, 2011: "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown
November 7, 2011: "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
December 24, 2010: "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
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September 2, 2010: "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010: "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009: "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
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May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok
April 18, 2005: "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005: "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005: "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello
