{"id":2321,"date":"2017-03-28T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:38:09","slug":"duy-doan-wins-yale-younger-poets-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/03\/28\/duy-doan-wins-yale-younger-poets-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Duy Doan wins Yale Younger Poets Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/03\/28\/duy-doan-wins-yale-younger-poets-prize\/03-26-17-neln-duy-doan-photo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2017\/03\/03.26.17-NELN-Duy-Doan-photo.jpg\" alt=\"03.26.17 - NELN - Duy Doan photo\" width=\"461\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so proud of\u00a0Duy Doan (Poetry &#8217;10), who recently\u00a0won the Yale Younger Poets Prize! \u00a0You can read a feature about Duy in the\u00a0<em>Boston Globe\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/2017\/03\/23\/jamaica-plain-poet-wins-yale-younger-poets-prize\/i3UhnjycsBhJSGu5UiBZfL\/story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Phillips, critically acclaimed poet and judge of the competition, says,\u00a0<span>\u201cIf games figure in Duy Doan\u2019s <\/span><em>We Play a Game<\/em><span>, they do so much more seriously, and resonantly, than the title alone suggests. For game here can mean as well the strategies for weathering those parts of society that threaten identity itself, at the level of gender (in all its fluidity), or race, of family as history and tradition \u2013 of language, too, and our expectations for it. Wide-ranging in subject, Doan\u2019s poems include boxing, tongue twisters, hedgehogs, Billie Holiday, soccer and, hardly least of all, a Vietnamese heritage that butts up against an American upbringing in ways at once comic, estranging, off-kiltering. Doan negotiates the distance between surviving and thriving, and offers here his own form of meditation on, ultimately, childhood, history, culture \u2013 who we are, and how \u2013 refusing all along to romanticize any of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>We Play a Game<\/em>\u00a0will be published by Yale University Press<em>\u00a0<\/em>in April 2018. Congratulations, Duy!<\/p>\n<p><span>Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet from Texas. A Kundiman fellow, he received his MFA in poetry from Boston University. His poems have appeared in\u00a0<\/span><em>Slate<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>The Cortland Review<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Best Emerging Poets<\/em><span>:\u00a0<\/span><em>Stay Thirsty Magazine<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Amethyst Arsenic<\/em><span>, and elsewhere. Duy has taught at Boston University, Lesley University, and the Boston Conservatory. He is the director of the Favorite Poem Project, which celebrates the role of poetry in the lives of Americans. He lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so proud of\u00a0Duy Doan (Poetry &#8217;10), who recently\u00a0won the Yale Younger Poets Prize! \u00a0You can read a feature about Duy in the\u00a0Boston Globe\u00a0here. Carl Phillips, critically acclaimed poet and judge of the competition, says,\u00a0\u201cIf games figure in Duy Doan\u2019s We Play a Game, they do so much more seriously, and resonantly, than the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[620,4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}