Duy Doan

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Duy Doan is an American poet. In 2017, his manuscript, We Play a Game , was selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Younger Poets Prize; the book was subsequently published by Yale University Press in March of 2018. [1]

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Early life

Doan was born to two Vietnamese parents who had fled from Vietnam in 1975 and resettled in Texas. [2] He graduated with an English degree from the University of Texas at Austin and later an MFA in poetry from Boston University. [3] [1]

Career

Doan's poems have appeared in Poets.org, Poetry Northwest , The Common, The Margins, Poetry Daily. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Doan is a Kundiman fellow and the director of the Favorite Poem Project. [9] [10] His work has been supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. [11] [12] He has taught at Lesley University, Boston University, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. [1]

In 2018, Doan's debut poetry collection, We Play a Game , was released by Yale University Press; it had been selected by Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets the year before. [1] In 2019, it won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. [13] Doan's second poetry collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, is scheduled to release in November of 2024, published by Alice James Books. [14]

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  2. ↑ Christiansen, Paul (April 3, 2019). "Saigoneer Bookshelf: Serious Play with Poet Duy Doan". saigoneer.com. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  3. ↑ "Duy Doan Named 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Winner". The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  4. ↑ Doan, Duy. "Duet". Poets.org. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  5. ↑ Doan, Duy. "Three Poems". www.poetrynw.org. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  6. ↑ "August 2024 Poetry Feature: New Poems By Our Contributors". The Common. 2024-08-29. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  7. ↑ Doan, Duy (2018-03-06). "Three Tongue Twisters: Poems by Duy Doan". Asian American Writers' Workshop. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  8. ↑ Doan, Duy. "Duy Đoàn on "History Lesson from Anh Hai"". Poetry Daily. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  9. ↑ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  10. ↑ O'Rourke, John (2017-09-11). "Favorite Poem Project to Celebrate 20th Anniversary". Boston University. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  11. ↑ "Fellows Notes - Mar 13". Massachusetts Cultural Council. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  12. ↑ "Literature – St. Botolph Club Foundation" . Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  13. ↑ "31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. 2019-06-04. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  14. ↑ "Alice James Books Welcomes Duy Đoàn". Alice James Books. 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
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