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steven duong

@boneless_koi

8 months

read my story :)))))

The Drift

@thedrift_mag

8 months

“I was good at my job. It was a job anyone could become good at given enough time and Adderall. I answered to three different directors, toothy Gen Xers with pristine opinions on politics and literature.” — @boneless_koi

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

my goal is to publish a book that immediately makes anyone caught reading it a little hotter. like even holding my book in public, on a bus, at a park, etcetera will make you several degrees more sexy

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

anyone else play this on wii as a kid

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

9 months

Like Sarah, I am resigning from my position at Palette Poetry. I refuse to remain at an organization whose leaders demand neutrality and silence in the face of the brutal Israeli occupation's genocidal violence against the Palestinian people. Much love to my fellow editors. 🖤

Sarah

@caesarah_

9 months

yesterday, I resigned from my role as EIC of Palette Poetry due to censorship, neutrality, & painful conversations around the occupation of Palestine. I'm sad to leave this way, but I can't work for a company that frames genocide as complicated.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

6 months

bro what the fuck is the “israel-hamas war” that makes it sound like two countries marching their armies at each other on a big soccer field and not one settler colony’s US funded mercenary death squad airstriking a never ending series of bakeries and refugee camps

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

I’m her :))))))

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 months

best poem of all time. it's by maureen n. mclane. i tattooed OK FERN on my thigh a few years ago and i need to touch it up soon. :)

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

always reading this thing

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

I will be attending the iowa writers’ workshop in the fall to get my mfa in fiction :)))

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

@teejayx6 on @kennybeats the cave friday: i just scammed a white producer he looked like KENNYBEATS!! wait a minute i think that man really was KENNYBEATS!! had to steal his laptop so i could hop on KENNY BEATS!!! if he try to stop me i might have to get KENNY BEAT!!!!!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

the MFA programs ruined fiction discourse is 100% spot on. today my professor told me to “make my prose way more boring” and “do social justice stuff in this book” if I ever wanted to make it big. And it worked. Just sold my slim immigrant novel for eight figures

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

9 months

very good news!! my first book AT THE END OF THE WORLD THERE IS A POND will be out next year with @wwnorton and I promise you every poem in this thing is gonna be so so so good!! :))) can’t wait to force you all to read it

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

a poem i wrote about dads @NERweb

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

10 months

Diane Seuss

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

Trying to contain myself but I feel like THE SHORT KING OF THE WORLD!! My poem “Ordnance” is in @GuernicaMag ! I wrote it after visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. It means a lot to me. If you wanna hear me reading it, you can: !!!

Guernica Magazine

@GuernicaMag

3 years

"At the museum, I learn I am as tall as / some bombs (5′ 7”)" New poetry by @boneless_koi .

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

MY POEM ABOUT EXPLOSIVES AND COMMUNIST GUILT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN @GuernicaMag THIS IS NOT A DRILL THIS IS A FLEX I AM AN AMERICAN WRITER NAMED STEVEN DUONG AND I AM GOING TO BE THE KING OF THIS COUNTRY BEFORE I DIE

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 months

feels insane to say this but my short story “Dorchester” (originally published in @thedrift_mag ) is going to be in Best American Short Stories 2024… thanks Lauren Groff(!!) you can preorder now @MarinerBooks or cop it in stores in October. :))) xoxo

The Best American Short Stories 2024

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “There have never been as...

www.harpercollins.com

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

I AM STEVEN DUONG AN AMERICAN WRITER WITH A NEW POEM ABOUT CATFISH AND THE APOCALYPSE IN @INDIANAREVIEW WHICH I PERSONALLY THINK IS A PRETTY GOOD POEM BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK I VALUE YOUR OPINION TOO

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

you are your ancestors wildest dreams... i am my ancestors sleep paralysis demon.. we are not the same

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

LETS GOOOOOO

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

1 month

as a former eighteen year old asian kid, I promise you that you do NOT have to become a whiny reactionary defined by weird little grievances. college is a place to kiss people, read books, and make truly terrible bedroom pop. life is so long.

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@EndWokeness

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His GPA score is 97.3%, SAT score is 1560, enrolled in a top high school, does tons of extracurricular work. He was rejected by multiple colleges. They call this equity and inclusion.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

A poem about temples and kissing and my fake teeth in @AmPoetryReview :)))

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

before valentine's actually ends here is a love poem i wrote a few months ago ok gn gn!!!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 months

something happened in the last few years rendering people on this website clinically incapable of resisting very obvious bait. and they always follow up saying “I know it’s fake but isn’t it scary how it could have been real” actually no your brain just has tunnels in it

Micah T’Chiyah 🌿🍉

@nicejewishbutch

4 months

Incredible things happening on lex regarding a white person being called out for wearing a keffiyeh at a play party, getting kicked out of their home bc of it, and asking that poc help them write a “3 page statement of harm” in order to be let back in to their apartment

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

1 year

hey look, I'll be teaching poetry at Emory University this fall as one of their creative writing fellows! ......... ty @RasheedaSaka for taking this pic where I look competent and normal!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

Moving to Iowa in August to get my MFA in fiction aka lying to strangers, but TODAY my first published story comes out in @CatapultStory . It's about a Viet kid who works at a pet fish store and writes her stupid little novel. 💛 Thank you @chengela .

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

this might be my favorite poem I ever wrote tbh

the lickety~split

@olicketysplit

3 years

Good Dog is what I say to my fish when I pet her. A dog is anything small & good to me. She nips my finger, breaks no skin but the water’s. Today I took my pills & felt little. Now I feel lots. I love this thing of mine. Her fins are good & her tail is too. Good dog.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

Non-timely announcement of recent small good things: I am poetry reader at @adroitjournal & guest editor at @PalettePoetry ! Getting involved in editorial work because I want to create space for more ugly bad awful loud writers like me. Also I just like reading stuff. Submit!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

“tattooed” like twenty or so iowa mfa students thus far … I’ve actually been removing their CIA microchips. My handlers will be furious. I hope they don’t hunt me down and k

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

my poetics is fish metaphor go brrr what of it

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

11 months

Mads🧜🏻‍♀️

@madcityyy_

11 months

Quote this with the best Halloween costume you’ve worn👻🎃

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

a metaphor isnt a device for meaning-making its a giant water beetle with five mouths and 1000000 legs. you all look incredibly stupid arguing otherwise. ocean vuong is wrong but you’re even wronger. poetry is when you give amphetamines to the giant beetle. you look so dumb.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

I AM STEVEN DUONG A SHORT BUT HANDSOME AMERICAN WRITER WITH A STUPID LITTLE POEM ABOUT DESTROYING AMERICA PUBLISHED IN @proteanmag PLEASE READ IT AND DONT BE AFRAID TO LET ME KNOW WHAT U THINK

Protean Magazine

@proteanmag

3 years

Today's poem, "Curfew" by Steven Duong ( @boneless_koi ), oscillates between the trivial and the apocalyptic, boredom and rage, to conclude: "it’s a fucking chore to live in this nation / of content creators."

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

For four years, I lived in Grinnell, Iowa, home to the largest gun parts supplier in the country. Last year, a former teacher of mine who lost his daughter in a school shooting took his own life. A few months later, I wrote this poem. Thank you @adroitjournal for publishing me.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

one last hurrah for poems before I make the hard pivot to depraved iowa novelist. got a good one coming in @AmPoetryReview baby …blessings to all the smelly poets😪

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

the thing with liberal arts school is it takes normal people and turns them into people who refer to the cheesecake factory as a liminal space or whatever so i really have to wonder what grad schools gonna do to my brain when i start next month

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

diaspora poets be like ugh i have a raw mouth full of moons & a soft body like my mother’s a slice of mango yellow & sour & foreign monsooned by assimilation why mother why did you pack me these dumplings due friday 😭

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

That's me 😳 !!! So excited and grateful to be working with @kundimanforever this year, making space for asian american artists both like and unlike me. We're getting our dreams out. We're getting all of our dreams out. This is big. Thank you.

Kundiman

@kundimanforever

4 years

Announcing our Poetry Coalition Fellow! 👏 Steven Duong is a Vietnamese American writer and artist from San Diego. A 2020 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry for The Adroit Journal, he currently serves as a guest editor at Palette Poetry. Read more below!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

all colonized ppl have a stake in palestinian struggle. israel has killed more ppl in the last few days of airstrikes than hamas has in a decade of rocket attacks. this poem is poorly enjambed propaganda and reading it sucked. free palestine

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@erikadreifus

3 years

One day, maybe, there will be no need to re-up this poem. But we are not there yet.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

love experiencing unwarranted amounts of joy seeing things Like idk seeing a bunch of geese and their babies and thinking Jesus fuck I feel so good about what I’m seeing this is unbelievable this is the best I’m literally never going to die

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

on the big city (formerly saigon)

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

i got stung by a bee at the writers’ workshop orientation and no one knows how brave i’m being about it

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

10 months

@kundimanforever Hello, board. The very term ASIAN AMERICAN was born out of a movement for pan ethnic solidarity, self-determination, and global decolonization. Speaking as your former communications fellow, does this reversal of solidarity not stand in direct opposition to Kundiman’s mission?

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

my first fiction workshop at iowa is today and i essentially submitted shape of water fanfic so yes I’m fully prepared to be cancelled by my peers

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

cringe is an element of craft. shitposting is a genre. the best kind of poetic device is called the “bruh moment”

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

23 days

I’m really good at thinking about writing. Once, in a waking dream, I invented a prose style so precise it made my nose bleed. I can’t reproduce it on the page, but I CAN continuously rotate a 2019 macbook pro in my mind until I black out

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

1 month

I was reading something about how people with ADHD often unify their local nomadic steppe tribes under a single banner and conquer large swathes of the eurasian continent, but apparently it’s due to their increased impulsivity and difficulty focusing on a single task

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

put me in your novel. that guy on the bus who’s not being normal. that guy at the party the main character goes to who’s not being normal. that could be me. give him a name. Steven. put me in there.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

6 months

I miss Iowa city where the bar is 5 min from your house and pool costs $1 and everyone laughs at you and says you’re a lesbian and your first person narrators don’t do anything and steven can you please drive me to the airport tomorrow at 4am my white friend is getting married

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

7 months

I hope you are well—as for me, I am surrounded by wild animals in the courtyard of heaven, having entranced them by singing the girl part of teenage dirtbag.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 months

had the huge honor of reading with rachel kushner at the drift gala how insane is that

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

sometimes it is hard to love someone when that love is so closely tied to anger and nonacceptance and hurt. this poem is about a love like that. check the new issue of @pleiadesmag where my work sits alongside voices i admire so much ( @RosebudBenOni @aimeenez @PrinceBush ) 😵!!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

FOUND OUT MY STORY WAS AN HONORABLE MENTION IN BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2021….. they didn’t email me lmaoooo I literally had no clue until a friend sent me this pic 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵💖💖🫰🫰🫰🥹🥹🥹🫰🖤🖤💖🖤 💕💕 you can read it here if you like:

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

my new poem out in Columbia poetry review!! it’s about violence and history and memory and love!!! thanks to the editors for publishing a young writer tryna make big things happen!!! also im a college grad lmao

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

I’m actually medium happy. With my life. I love like 5-7 people a lot and I get to write all the time basically

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

i actually donated my kidney to my betta fish last year and no one asked me about it. no one even checked in to see how i was doing (tired, in pain) or how my fish was doing (dead, attached to a waterlogged human kidney)

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

HEY DO YOU LIKE POEMS ABOUT SAYING GOODBYE TO PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU IN WAYS YOU CANNOT FULLY LIVE WITH IF SO READ THIS ONE BY ME (STEVEN DUONG) IT’S CALLED ORIGIN STORY! 🖤 ty lovely @CatapultStory editors @sarahlynwrites and Tommy Pico

Catapult

@CatapultStory

3 years

From the poem "Origin Story" by @boneless_koi : "I lived & I lived / For you I did it elsewhere"

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

the top two ways i have been addressed in emails from editors: 1. Hello Steven Vuong 2. Dear Doug nothing can top these. you could literally call me a slur and these would still be my absolute fave. doug!!! iconic!!!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

. @alexanderchee gave me a roadmap to survival and @DeanBakopoulos taught me to write my stories and trust my voice and I’m being very earnest but I don’t care I’d rather risk sentimentality than be an emotionless husk with 10000 plans to die. These writers saved me!!! for real!

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

10 months

the poet / the poem :))))

Danez

@Danez_Smif

10 months

The Poet / The Poem

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

if u graduate from liberal arts college u have five possible career options : 1. Professor 2. high school teacher 3. hope ur lofi bedroom indie pop ep gets reposted by tyler the creator or clairo or somethign 4. sell haikus for $15 each 5. perish in a communist revolution

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

people keep saying my shit is autofiction so I’m writing a billionaire character who has a room in his complex called the frog room where he keeps hundreds of frogs no tanks no nothing just a big room with a pond in the floor full of water and frogs. plus he doesn’t have adhd

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 months

NOT THE REAL COVER FOR MY BOOK JUST SOMETHING I MADE IN PHOTOSHOP WHILE HIGH ON AMPHETAMINES

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

this is my princess mononoke cannibal fanfic poem in @havehadhavehad !! the apes in that movie scared me so much as a kid. their red eyes. their hunger. but I get it now. I get why they were angry hungry and ready to throw hands.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

phoebe bridgers is allowed to be annoying on here because she wrote motion sickness. brandon taylor is allowed to be shady on here bc he wrote real life. I’m allowed nothing. I’m just a tiny clump of dirt with no brain. and yet I post. in a way that makes me extremely brave

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

6 years

worst grinnell student content: 1. second year subtweets first year(s) doing something harmless 2. d hall complaint post 3. white woman w/cool haircut vague fb posts about allyship/activism 4. city kid captions pic of iowa sunset "middle of nowhere"/ "cornfields" / "skyowa"

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

cool part of living in the anthropocene is you get to see posts about vincent van gogh being neurodivergent and a minor. rough part is you die of microplastic poisoning at 34. it’s a fair deal imo

Ellen Walker MA (RCA)

@EllenFWalker

2 years

I'm struggling to understand why destroying a painting of sunflowers done by Van Gogh, an impoverished man who was marginalised in his local community due to his mental illness, is the right target to make a statement about how awful the oil industry is.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

why should I shell out $25k on a publicist when I could simply put together an avenger’s style crack team of highly skilled unpaid gay interns to post insufferable gossip girl memes and very biased tik tok reviews of my novel for free. Answer me that

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

untapped literary and media audiences you might want to think about: 1. horse girls of color 2. wife guys of color 3. weebs who are asian but not japanese 4. dogs who are very smart 5. normal dogs

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 months

in my mother tongue urgent means not that urgent

mj gomez | LOVE LETTERS OUT NOW!

@bluejayverses

3 months

urgent words from ocean vuong's ig today

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

27 days

Sorry if it offends you but this is the ideal American family unit in 2024. One father labors five days a week in the poetry mines. The other father runs a puppy mill. They never kiss on the mouth. Everything they make goes toward the mill.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

Today is my last day as the guy who checks to make sure you don’t have any visible tattoos before letting you into the MFA program. It’s been thirty years of challenging but fulfilling work. A true honor.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

hehe look look look at my pretty lil face I’m an @adroitjournal 2020 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry!!!! Some freaky ones of mine are about to drop in the March issue so keep your eyes out 👀 Congrats to my fellow scholars! Day 3 post-vietnam self quarantine I’m thriving 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

The Adroit Journal

@adroitjournal

4 years

We are SO EXCITED to announce our 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry! Thank you to all who entered. I hope you'll stay tuned to read our Scholars' work in our March issue, which drops on THURSDAY! See the results:

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

nyc reminds me a lot of enchanted (2007) idk

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 months

fuck these colleges and their admins calling in cops to tear gas nineteen year olds sitting on the grass singing little songs and taking care of each other fuck you and everyone you know and love

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

this poem is so bad. how did this man rewrite The Help and somehow make it both worse and a poem? the white liberal imagination is truly so narrow in scope it’s almost funny

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

1 year

This fucking sucks. The editors took a chance on me and published my first short story ever. They’ve continually championed my work and the works of writers I deeply admire. This loss affects everyone involved but no one more than the incredible people on the team.

Publishers Weekly

@PublishersWkly

1 year

The decision to suspend the publisher's editorial and educational arms will "consolidate our efforts around our book publishing program," the publisher said in a statement.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

IM DONE WITH MY MFA APPLICATIONS! I am done with my mfa apps. (I’m finished with them, the applications ) These are jars full of plants soil and bugs Im done with my apps btw

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

received a chartruse graduation cord for getting a 100+ like comment in “Grinnell Thumbs Down”

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3 years

as a man i would like to wield a blade but as a husband i know it’s not my place….

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

11 months

The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad art So I made a list of 15 Good Art v/s Bad Art: The Masterlist of 15 Differences👇🏻

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@boneless_koi

3 years

we're going strong <3

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@boneless_koi

4 years

They will never post this because they are afraid of true civil discourse. Sorry gcmoderates, rationality always wins

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@boneless_koi

3 years

NEW STEVEN DUONG POEM JUST DROPPED!! 😶‍🌫️😳‼️ I wrote this one in Malawi. It’s an ode to geckos, antidepressants, being alive, and “smoke signals” by phoebe bridgers (a perfect song). LMK WHAT U THINK!! 😡 Thanks @nicolesjchung @CatapultStory

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

grinnell alums run this up pls it’s very important

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

they said it couldn’t be done. they said I couldn’t write the worlds worst poem. they said the pure force of its cringe would rend the flesh from my bones. and yet ..

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

1 year

really worried about chat gpt ... thought i was the only guy in the world who could write a vague poorly constructed run on sentence about how seeing a dead deer reminded me of my immigrant parents

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@boneless_koi

5 years

@Danez_Smif u should have written "Buddy" instead... a book of universally beloved poems for the reading pleasure of this wonderful white king ...

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

OK SO.. I got a poem accepted into THE MARGINS (the Asian American Writers’ Workshop[!!!]’s online pub)!!! the mf margins!! seen so many of my heroes and role models here damn! big thanks to @EmilyYoon and the whole @aaww squad!! comin august-ish..don’t sleep on the boy 🤮😤🐍

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

9 months

Here's my story about a poet who publishes a viral little hashtag stop asian hate poem after the murder of an elderly vietnamese woman in his city. It's called "Dorchester" and what's in it is very important to me. You can read it online in @thedrift_mag .

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

6 years

at des moines airport rn and two separate grinnell college students have been called over the intercom in the last 15 min to please get their unattended belongings lol comrades wyd get ur shit together

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

10 months

NEW STORY COMING SOON BY YOURS TRULY IT’S CALLED DORCHESTER AND I REALLY LIKE IT

The Drift

@thedrift_mag

10 months

Issue Eleven is wrapped! Subscribe by Tuesday to receive a print copy. Feat. @togglecoat @Harmony_Holiday @ajbwells @gabydvj @reproutopia @IntifadaBatata @K__Patrick @ellafox_m @boneless_koi @veronica_gago @eliza5cool @princebush_ @emmawinsorwood

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

1 year

this past week i invented a new form of social media it's basically when you don't eat or sleep for 48 hours and then you start imagining completely made up tik toks playing on your ceiling like it's queens gambit

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

2 years

I read two books today like all I did was sit and read these two novels and now its 2am and I feel like dogshit like I’m wired and delirious and still thinking about these fake ppl who don’t exist and I can’t sleep god i missed this

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

5 years

LSD • invented by the CIA for mind control • easy to fake • way worse than shrooms • can give anyone a bad trip MSG • invented by cute asian grandmas for umami • always authentic and natural • way better than salt • will only give u a bad trip if ur racist

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

weird feeling! had my viet last name pronounced correctly tonite at a poetry reading. dont think anyone has ever done that before. i don't even say my name like that. but this poet did. such a strange feeling. idk what to say besides hm. that's nice. might run with it.

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

4 years

This is the first poem I wrote after leaving home last august for malawi. includes geckos biting the shit out of each other, gene splicing, & an old ludacris record 🌱🦎 It kinda feels like a thesis statement for the book in progress ... 🤫 @MassReview

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steven duong

@boneless_koi

3 years

got the venerable penguin classics to refer to me as “boneless_koi” lol I’m the absolute worst. ps check out the list of books by AAPI writers I curated with them and @kundimanforever !!!

Penguin Classics

@PenguinClassics

3 years

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we're thrilled to partner with @kundimanforever on a reading list curated by @boneless_koi that highlights books by AAPI writers, both classic and contemporary! Read on and amplify AAPI voices all year long.

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