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stories, poems, worse // creative writing fellow at emory university // work in american poetry review, the drift, best american short stories // AT THE END OF THE WORLD THERE IS A POND out jan 14, 2025 stevenduongwrites.com
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May 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Almost done!!!
April 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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At the End of the World There Is a Pond by @bonelesskoi.bsky.social, January 2025, @wwnorton.bsky.social

"The velocity and music of this book will steady you far into your days." —Major Jackson, author of Razzle Dazzle

wwnorton.com/books/978132...
At the End of the World There Is a Pond
A stunning debut volume infused with apocalyptic overload, beginnings and endings, and all the ways we betray ourselves., At the End of the World There Is a Pond, Poems, Steven Duong, 9781324086789
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April 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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thnx to @joehalljoehall.bsky.social the for this photo!

had a blast at Rustbelt!

here with @lesbrarienne.bsky.social @bonelesskoi.bsky.social
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Thom Eichelberger-Young and Chango
April 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Revisit @bonelesskoi.bsky.social’s Issue Eleven short story, “Dorchester,” which was selected as a Best American Short Story of 2024, and check out his debut poetry collection, “At the End of the World There Is a Pond”

www.thedriftmag.com/dorchester/
Dorchester
In the year of the ox, my poem went moderately viral in some small but enthusiastic circles, the way a poem sometimes does. I wrote it after reading the news report about the old Vietnamese woman…
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March 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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"Duong’s debut signals a new direction for Asian American poetry—one that is neither purely personal nor solely political, but lives at the intersection." Adedayo Agarau on AT THE END OF THE WORLD THERE IS A POND by @bonelesskoi.bsky.social.

Read the review.
theadroitjournal.org/2025/03/17/a...
A Review of Steven Duong’s At the End of the World There Is a Pond  - The Adroit Journal
Steven Duong’s debut collection, At the End of the World There Is a Pond, emerges at a pivotal moment in contemporary American poetry, when questions of environmental crisis, diasporic identity, and f...
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March 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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"I began to realize the road between the past and the present is continuous. It’s not straight, but continuous, and that it didn’t stop existing when all these people left." - @bonelesskoi.bsky.social electricliterature.com/obsessions-c...
Obsessions Create Ripple Effects in "At the End of the World There Is a Pond" - Electric Literature
Steven Duong discusses the impact of displacement, addiction, and his tattoo practice on his debut collection of poetry
electricliterature.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"...a painstaking formalism, a commitment to steadfastness and sobriety, as in his sonnets, which boast tattoo-precise lines and the willful sturdiness of gravestones..."

Thank you to chris spaide! These words on At the End of the World There Is a Pond are so generous and insightful!!! 🥲🥲🥲
February 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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AT THE END OF THE WORLD THERE IS A POND available now wherever books are sold.
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January 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Cool interview in @electriclit.bsky.social with @bonelesskoi.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection is just out. Talks about aquariums, how his tattoo practice shows up in his poetry, Vietnam, & even some Lord of the Rings. Kudos to interviewer Sanchari Sur electricliterature.com/obsessions-c...
Obsessions Create Ripple Effects in "At the End of the World There Is a Pond" - Electric Literature
Steven Duong discusses the impact of displacement, addiction, and his tattoo practice on his debut collection of poetry
electricliterature.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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In my little riser seat, ready to celebrate @bonelesskoi.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
final hardcovers are here!!! out for real on january 14!!!!
December 1, 2024 at 10:01 PM
AT THE END OF THE WORLD THERE IS A POND comes out in two months! You can preorder it now from your local independent bookstore--below is a link to personal fave, A Room of One's Own in Madison, WI.

Can't wait to share these poems with you :)))))))))))

roomofonesown.com/book/9781324...
November 15, 2024 at 6:14 PM