She is founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Krista interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong on March 8 in a joyful room full of podcast makers at On Air Fest in Brooklyn. Ocean Vuong is an assistant professor of English in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His books include The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy and The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus, coming in October 2020. The acclaimed young Vietnamese writer Ocean Vuong talks to Oonagh Cousins about creating words, finding the right image, writing at night and being uncomfortable.

A question to reflect on after you listen: What examples have you seen of love and power enacted, even in the face of threat? Ocean Vuong, Read by When Vuong's mother gave him the oh-so-apt name of Ocean, she inadvertently called into being a writer whose language some of us readers could happily drown in. Curiosities. Ocean Vuong is an assistant professor of English in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus, Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants, Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss.

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for her book American Primitive. This show originally aired in February, 2015. Its trajectory was cathartically changed the day he and his wife Connie woke up to find that their firstborn two-year-old son, Kaidin, had mysteriously died in his sleep. As if my finger, / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors, / was enough / to erase myself. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award; and a novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

He was longtime environment editor of The Independent and environment correspondent of The Times. Hochschild created a field within sociology looking at the social impact of emotion.

Her books include In the Shadow of Man and Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey. Craig holds a degree in environmental science from the University of Minnesota, and is the founder of the environmental nonprofit and record label Earthology. Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

Editor’s note: This interview discusses sexual violence and rape. “Sometimes being offered tenderness,” writes Vuong, “feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.” Ocean Vuong aged two with his aunt and mother at a Philippines refugee camp. He is a naturalist and journalist with a galvanizing call — that we stop relying on the immobilizing language of statistics and take up our joy in nature as our defense of it.

His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He is the author of the poetry collection. This show originally aired in February, 2016.

A companion conversation to this week’s On Being episode — Krista catches up with Rev.

Going Home With Ocean Vuong. Ocean Vuong on Being a Participant in Creation. Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org. ‎Krista interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong on March 8 in a joyful room full of podcast makers at On Air Fest in Brooklyn.

Copyright © 2020, is an assistant professor of English in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Music is a source of solace and nourishment in the best of times and the hardest of times. His books include Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, Sorry for Your Troubles, and a poetic memoir, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World. He is the recipient of the RSPB Medal from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Silver Medal from the Zoological Society of London.
Each episode takes a single poem as its center, with host Pádraig Ó Tuama reading the poem and meditating on it. angel Kyodo williams on how she’s keeping her fearlessness alive through pandemic and rupture. Even though his most recent book, 2016’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was a collection of poems, Vuong is now engaged in the task of writing what he calls “the ghost of a novel.”His work is predicated on the notion that both reading and writing are acts that require generosity and a willingness to explore. None of us would have guessed that within a handful of days such an event would become unimaginable. Eliot Prize for his poetry. As a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer joins science’s ability to “polish the art of seeing” with her personal, civilizational lineage of listening to plant life and heeding the languages of the natural world.

/ How ruin nested inside each thimbled throat / & made it sing, until the notes threaded to this / smoke rising / from your nostrils. Jane Goodall is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and its youth program, Roots & Shoots. In the midst of recognizing the violence and threat LGBTQI communities face, the poem holds space for tenderness — and honors their love. / Don’t laugh. None of us would have guessed that within a handful of days such an event would become unimaginable. Dallas Voice.

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss." Robin Wall Kimmerer is the State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award; and a novel,  On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

And the conversation Krista had with her in 2018 has now come to point straight to the heart of 2020 — a year in which many of us might say we feel like strangers in our own land and in our own world. So this conversation holds a last memory before the world shifted on its axis.

Their albums include Light Chasers, the acoustic live album Unplug, and The Seeker.

Written by In this hour, we dwell with six poems that accompany the struggle, strangeness, and possibilities of being alive in this time. “Seventh Circle of Earth” comes from Ocean Vuong’s book Night Sky with Exit Wounds. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. Poetry rises up in human societies in times of crisis when official words fail us and we lose sight of how to find our way back to one another; how to hear each other’s voices. We welcomed Craig and the whole Cloud Cult ensemble to On Being Studios in Minneapolis, for conversation and music, in 2016.


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