Duy Đoàn (pronounced zwē dwän / zwee dwahn) is the author of We Play a Game (Yale University Press, 2018), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University. His second collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in November 2024.
Poetry
Winter 2024
Buddy and Butterscotch, Water Goat in the Year of the Water Snake
After the wedding the cats started fighting. It was our little speedster Butterscotch. She touched the leaves of the pale China lantern. One way of explaining it (I think we […]
Poetry
Winter 2024
Oxytocin
For years after Mom died, I would get home late at night and say, Hi Pop, where’s Ma. And he’d stay quiet, and you’d chime up, In bed. And I’d […]
Poetry
Winter 2024
Oxytocin
A good way to change your name is to get a divorce. There was that one time she drew the dog’s shadow. There was that other time she melted the […]