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Ocean Vuong has won Britain's most important prize for new poets
Friday, September 22, 2017
On Thursday, September 21, 2017, Vuong received a £5,000 award for his book Night Sky With Exit Wounds from the Forward Prizes, the annual awards which have been dubbed the "poetry Oscars." Vuong...

Natasha Trethewey (MFA'95) receives the 22nd Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
A two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, Ms. Natasha Trethewey draws much of her writing from extensive research. Her poetry is often anchored in the complex history of racial and social inequity in the...