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Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.

Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience

April 13, 2016Books

Twenty-eight-year-old Ocean Vuong captures his experience coming from Vietnam to the US in his debut poetry collection “Night Sky with Exit Wounds.”

North Vietnamese troops and Saigon residents eye each other on the streets of the city on April 30th, 1975, the day the city fell to the government in Hanoi.

A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon

May 1, 2015Conflict

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