MARBLEHEAD – On Sunday, September 25th from 2:00 – 4:00 pm, the Poetry Salon at the Abbot Public 
Library will feature the poems of Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese-American poet who recently addressed the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem. He is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), winner of the 2016 Whiting Award.
Ocean has received honors and awards from Poets House, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and a Pushcart Prize. His poetry and fiction have been featured in The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, and the American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. His work has been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, French, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Claire Keyes, Marblehead Poet and Professor Emerita at Salem State University, will lead the Salon.
Copies of Ocean’s poems will be available at the Library’s Main Desk.
All are welcome: poetry lovers and those looking to explore the form!
The Abbot Public Library is located at 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945. For additional information, please call 781-631-1481 or visit www.abbotlibrary.org.
